One of my favourite graphic novels of all time is Will Eisner's Dropsie Avenue : The Neighbourhood (reprinted in The Contract with God Trilogy).
The stories show how the neighbourhood changes and evolves from one generation to the next. Which ethnicities make up the narrative? Dutch, English, Irish, Jews (religious and assimilated), Italian Catholics, African Americans, Puerto Ricans. One of the important characters is a disabled girl in a wheelchair who - towards the end - helps the neighbourhood thrive again after years of neglect. http://www.willeisner.com/library/dropsie-avenue.html B'shalom, Steven M. Bergson, MLIS Toronto, Canada Jewish comics blog http://jewishcomics.blogspot.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: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
