Of possible interest to librarians who will be in the Manhattan area on Feb. 25th.
**** The Jewish Side of Comics New York Comic Con Sun., Feb. 25, 2007 4:00-5:00 PM Room 1E04 moderated by Steven M. Bergson of The Jewish Comics Blog http://jewishcomics.blogspot.com * Rabbi Simcha Weinstein (author of Up and Oy Vey : How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero) will be talking about Biblical archetypes of superheroes. http://www.rabbisimcha.com * Danny Fingeroth (author of the still-forthcoming Disguised as Clark Kent : Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero) will be talking about the Jewish writers of superhero stories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Fingeroth Josef Rubinstein will talk about 2 books he's working on for Mahrwood Press : Balm in Gilead and Journeys : The Collected Edition. http://www.myspace.com/joerubinstein http://www.mahrwoodpress.com/ Stan Mack will talk about a series of Jewish historical fiction graphic novels he's working on. http://www.stanmack.com/ Neil Kleid will tale about the cartoon memoir about his Orthodox developmentally disabled younger brother, titled "Migdal David", to be published by Seraphic Press. http://www.rantcomics.com/ http://www.seraphicpress.com/ ***** Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
