Graphic novel

South Carolina school district restricts Holocaust graphic novel for middle-schoolers

The decision follows the passage this summer of restrictive new guidelines on instructional materials at the State Board of Education. 

 Frank W. Baker's book "We Survived the Holocaust," featuring illustrations by Tim Ogline, tells the real-life story of Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg.
 "Next Stop" is the first novel by Benjamin Resnick, rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center in suburban New York.

A rabbi’s debut novel imagines a black hole swallowing Israel. And then things get weird.

 A SCENE from ‘Art College 1994’.

‘Art College 1994’ features more talk than paint - review

 CLEANING A vandalized tomb reading ‘Death to Jews!’ at a Jewish cemetery near Moscow, 1998. The book describes experiencing and escaping antisemitism during the Soviet Union era.

'A Visit to Moscow': An otherworldly story of escaping antisemitism - review


17th-century Jewish woman’s diaries to be adapted into new graphic novel

Glikl of Hamlyn's diary, written over 20 years hundreds of years ago, describes issues, ambitions and struggles that remain relevant today.

Bertha Pappenheim, a descendant of Glickl Hamel, poses as Glikl for this portrait painted by the artist Leopold Pilichowski.

‘Maus’ giveaway is on as bookstores, professors counter Tennessee school ban

Nirvana Comics, a comic-book store in Knoxville, announced on social media that it would be giving away copies of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book to any interested students.

Cover of the book 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

Italian Holocaust graphic novel trilogy debuts final installment

Casa Prima del Buio's emphasis on characters and their experience in the world literally and figuratively binds history, character and art together within the pages of the graphic novel.

A page is seen from Casa Prima del Buio.

Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens' to be adapted into graphic novel

The adaptation, entitled 'Sapiens: A Graphic History,' will be available in October.

Yuval Noah Harari and a copy of his book "Sapiens".

Digital images encoded in Torah revealed for the first time

Converting the gematria values of the Torah's text into binary reveals pixillated illustrations of the Biblical story.

The word 'El' emerged from the first four words of the Torah

For one author, Pirkei Avot is both a sefer and a coloring book

The Ethics of the Fathers gets a new colorful look as a graphic novel.

 Jessica Tamar Deutsch’s “Illustrated Pirkei Avot: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Ethics

A graphic Haggadah

“The vast majority of secular Jews in Israel attend a Seder every year, as do a huge percentage of Diaspora Jews who maintain none of our traditions.”

An illustration from the Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel