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Friday, August 18, 2006
Jewish graphic novel authors at Harbourfront (Toronto)
:: Posted by max @ 8/18/2006 08:50:00 PM  Co:Steven M. Bergson
Want to meet some interesting author-illustrators in
Toronto during the Labour Day Weekend?
There are 3 presentations on Jewish graphic novels at
Harbourfront (2 panels, 1 slide-show lecture) as part
of Ashkenaz --- and 2 of them are FREE!
Sept. 3 @1pm : THE STORY OF THE JEWS with STAN MACK
Veteran cartoonist and writer Stan Mack has never used his documentary style of graphic design to better effect than in his stunning Story of the Jews. Through projection of graphics onto a screen accompanied by his lively narration, the book is transformed into a historical drama. “Who could have imagined that 4,000 years of Jewish history could be fun to read about?”—Eric Alterman, media critic, The Nation and salon.com
Sept. 3 @5pm : GRAPHIC LIVES: BEN KATCHOR & BERNICE EISENSTEIN
Artists and writers Ben Katchor and Bernice Eisenstein both employ graphics in their storytelling. Using multi-media techniques, they will screen illustrations and dramatically evoke the real and imagined events in such acclaimed books as Katchor’s The Jew of New York and Eisenstein’s I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors. “ Katchor (has) created a dead-end-street theater of the absurd full of pocket-hole repairmen, calendar salesmen, and apartment-house lobby designers.”— Boston Phoenix “ Eisenstein's I Was A Child Of Holocaust Survivors is a unique hybrid as text and drawings, a variation on the adult graphic novel, converge to create a powerful and emotionally charged memoir.”—Susan Cole, NOW
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Sept. 4 @2pm : ILLUSTRATION, PASSION AND MEMORY: JEWS AND THE GRAPHIC NOVEL with BEN KATCHOR, BERNICE EISENSTEIN and STAN MACK
A new literary genre is emerging. Called the graphic novel, it haphazardly incorporates memoir and fiction, documentary and fantasy. Though clearly not always a novel, the form always uses illustrations and text, and is intended for adults to enjoy. Pioneered by Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman, the graphic novel has roots —though not solely— in Ashkenaz culture. Three of the finest exemplars of this new genre, Ben Katchor, Bernice Eisenstein and Stan Mack, will discuss their contentious relationships to this new, highly visible, form. Is it literature? Art? How will it develop? Join them for a lively discussion.Labels: Ontario, Toronto
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