Paul Buhle
By Paul Buhle
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Books Yiddish Stories Not Lost in Translation
The Association of Jewish Libraries Guide to Yiddish Short Stories By Bennett Muraskin Ben Yehuda Press, 79 pages, $14.50 The title of this small but useful book might have been lengthened to include “in the English language,” but the point is taken. We are now in a veritable golden age of translation, though the “golden”…
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Books How a Holocaust Survivor Escaped Into Comics
Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer By Trina Robbins, Illustrated by Anne Timmons and Mo Oh Graphic Universe, 96pp., $7.95 This is quite a remarkable little book, by quite an artist-writer duo, on quite a subject. Miriam Katin, Holocaust survivor and comic artist herself, reviewed “Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From…
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Books The Great Media Non-Conspiracy
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On the Media By Brooke Gladstone, Illustrated by Josh Neufeld W. W. Norton & Company, 158 pages, $26.00 An icon of many a household’s Sunday listening, Brooke Gladstone and her show “On the Media,” with Bob Garfield as co-host, has for my (pledge) money the liveliest program on National Public…
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News A Duo of Artists Who Looked at The World From an Oblique Angle
Harvey Pekar and Tuli Kupferberg died on the same day, July 12, and shared much, including peacenik politics, a strong sense of humor and a passion to carve art out of the fragments of popular culture. But they were almost an American Jewish generation apart, a detail that now seems difficult to grasp entirely, but…
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Culture Grossed Out, Or Remembered At Last?
The Complete Milt Gross: Comic Books and Life Story Edited by Craig Yoe IDW Publishing, 386 pages, $39.99 Three or four generations ago, humorist Milt Gross was so famous that to avoid him and his work would have been almost impossible — especially for Jewish readers, some of whom must have winced, while others laughed…
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Culture In the Image of God
The Book of Genesis Illustrated By R. Crumb Norton, unpaged (220 pages, oversized) $24.95 hardback. To say this book is a remarkable volume or even a landmark volume in comic art is somewhat of an understatement. It doesn’t hurt that excerpts of the book appeared during the summer in the New Yorker and that the…
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Culture Superbad
Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster Edited by Craig Yoe, with an Introduction by Stan Lee Abrams ComicArts, 160 pages, $24.95. Who knew that Joe Shuster (1914-1992), the Cleveland Jewish teenage artist of the Depression Era, rising from obscurity through his portrayal of The Man of Steel, would become in later…
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Culture Will Eisner’s Life, Drawn by His Own Hand
Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical Stories By Will Eisner, with an introduction by Scott McCloud W.W. Norton & Company, 496 pages, $29.95. In one of many ironies whose origins may be suggested here, artist-entrepreneur Will Eisner died in 2005, just as his collected oeuvre had begun to persuade readers that he was a true master and…
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