Hi Alba! Missed you at convention this year. --- alba toscano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What museum would be so dumb as to leave a bunch of > nice junk lying around > with a sign that says in large friendly letters: > "Have at it." What > exhibitors and museum curators would not work > together to consider the > background of the public that might visit the > exhibit and not make the > appropriate adjustments? Probably those museums that > have no respect for the > exhibit and probably those exhibitors who have no > respect for the public they > have to work with. Somewhere along the chain of > command somebody has to give a > dam or the exhibit will be a fiasco just like a > library that nobody uses.
I quite agree, Alba. Confession time. I had written merely "If any of you recognize the synagogue and could tell me which one it is, I could then add the identification to my records." The truth is, I had a further motive for trying to learn more about the cover. If everything goes according to the current planning, the Manhattan JCC (NY) will be the site of an exhibition on Jewish comics Jan.-Feb. 2004. I would have preferred it to be done in June 2004. I have suggested that this particular comic be among those displayed and, since the use of photos for covers is so visually interesting and rare, it will probably end up on the final list of exhibited items. In addition to lending out my collection as if I were a library (well, I'm a librarian ; close enough), I am also being listed somewhere as the exhibit's "Jewish comics historian". Part of that role will mean that they are asking for my input for the description cards that will be used for each item. Though I applaud those times when the authors and illustrators of comics get it right (presumably after doing their research at a library &/or consulting with librarians), it is my responsibility as a librarian, as a "comics scholar", and as a Jew, to point out any errors that are to be found in the items on display, particularly those that seem (to me) to be the most obvious or glaring. Take a look at this cover for Rising Stars #16 : http://www.geocities.com/hadassahfink/risingstars.jpg As comics covers go, this one is actually quite nice and simple. No clutter of caption boxes or word balloons, no crowded imagery. The Israeli flag is not as easy to see as the Syrian one (and it's harder to see because of the masthead), but it is there. Also, this is the only cover I have seen to show a Jewish tombstone, complete with stone markers along the top. The Hebrew word (lettered better than I could do myself) is supposed to be "selah", spelled with a sameh. As you can see, they made a typo, giving it a siyn. This was pointed out in a Usenet newsgroup by Israeli Moise Eyal. These 2 are the only cover errors that will be on display, but I'm also keeping an eye out for errors in the comics themselves because some of them will be displayed with the comics opened to specific pages (I think). In this case, it is not only the popularity of the exhibit that makes the availability and the accuracy of the information so important, but the popularity of the items themselves - since they are part of popular culture. > Some librarian has to call up the guys of the > magazine and ask them if they put in the picture of > the synagogue backwards on the cover for a reason > or if it was just a snafu to be fixed when the next > printing comes up. It is safe to say that there will be no further printings of either of these comics because the market doesn't usually allow it. However, a single issue of a comic may be resold or traded dozens of times. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
