Anthologies

a section of a comics page, with yellow and purple coloring as it palette. Top section: women gather around a circus tent, handing out pamphlets. They are from the early 20th century. Below: Two women trapeze artists catch one another in front of a crowd.

The Spectacular Soaring Suffragists

The Suffragist Movement in America culminated in the early 20th century in the fight for the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which removed sex as a barrier for the right to vote. The movement had a foothold in some unusual places, including among women circus performers. This short comic tells their unique story.

Published in for Votes For Women: The Battle for the 19th Amendment by Little Red Bird Press.

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Let Us Say… Amen

The Mourner’s Kaddish prayer is one of the most important prayers in the Jewish religion. It’s a prayer of contradictions – spoken in the vernacular language of Aramaic, but addressing the highest holiness; said to honor death, but praising life. In this autobiographical comic I tell the story of Kaddish’s presence in my life and how its effect and meaning has changed for me over the years: from experiencing antisemitism in the world around me to honoring my family members, a 2,000+ year old prayer has created unexpected connections.

Published in Dirty Diamonds Anthology’s 10th issue, “Death.”

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Top panel: a young woman walks down the street in cargo pants and a jacket with patches all over it in a cadet cap. Her hair is in a ponytail. The title of the comic is “And Let Us Say: Amen.” It says the same in Hebrew below it. The woman is walking down the sidewalk and she has a shocked look on her face. She sees the graffiti that has been sprayed on the shop window: “Siegl Heil 2016, and “Trump,” with a swastika in place of the “T.” “The morning after the 2016 Presidential Election, I saw swastikas in my neighborhood. In 2017, in a Jewish cemetery not far from Philadelphia, gravestones were toppled by vandals.” Second panel shows the building for the synagogue “Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha. My baby book is drawn overlaid. A signature is highlighted: “Pediatrician - Dr. Rabinowitz.” “In October of 2018, 11 worshippers were gunned down during Shabbat prayers at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA- my birthplace. One of the martyrs, Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, was my first pediatrician.”
Black and white comic section. Top panel: a medieval scribe pets his cat, who has killed a rodent. In the foreground, we see the cat has walked all over his latest work, leaving pawprints. Second panel: A Japanese woman sits in seiza, holding up a piece of calligraphy with pawprints on it. She looks at her callico cat, sitting next to her calligraphy tools in a loaf, with annoyance.

A Timeless Tail

Throughout human history, cats have been our companions at home and at work. This comic follows the well-documented history of the latter.

To be published in an upcoming anthology entitled Adorable Assistants.

A Justified Injustice

The nature of Antisemitism is that it is an amorphous beast that infects the entire political spectrum. Right wing antisemitism is more blatant and easily spot – swastikas, hateful chants, terror attacks. It is much more of an existential threat. But antisemitism on the Left wing is a real problem, and it can be more challenging to fight, because it disguises itself as social justice. This comic explores how.

To be published in an upcoming anthology, Your Jewish Friends Could Be Better, about Jewish life after October 7th.

Scene: a social justice march. Two young people speak excitedly to one another. One says, angrily: "you see how much money we're sending to israel? if they didn't have our government under their thumb, maybe we'd have universal healthcare." In earshot, a woman - rendered in all blue to contrast with the black and white figures - looks worriedly. She wears a Hamsa around her neck.

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