“Eszter Szép came to meet me in Princeton, a very devoted scholar. She opened the Holocaust Comics exhibit at the Jewish Cultural Center in Budapest.” – Miriam
Her research involving ‘We Are On Our Own’ has been included in a book titled ‘Documenting Trauma in Comics’, and the cover art for ‘We Are On Our Own’ was used for the cover.
If you are keen on obtaining a copy here is the link to the MacMillan Publishers Palgrave devision website.
January 7, 2020
Here I am fighting a desperate and hopeless battle, a private war.
For language is beautiful and I don’t see why it needs to be enhanced by those idiotic yellow faces, crying, grinning, praying hands flying hearts etc… etc. I believe our civilization just hit a new low.
Happy New Year
from Miriam
December 31, 2019
Installation photos from the Jewish Museum Belgium of the “Super Heroes Never Die” exhibition, now on view until April 26th, 2020.
December 4, 2019
The New Yorker has been part of my life for many years. So I am really excited that they have published a cartoon of mine. Click on the image for the online edition.
May 8, 2019
September 27, 2017
Next month, on March 9th from 7pm to 9pm will be the opening of an exhibition including my mom’s work at Undercurrent Projects in New York City. The gallery is located at 215 E. 5th Street. Wish I could be there.
February 20, 2017
A month passed since the SWF Singapore Writers Festival and it is time to move on.
Still, before I let go, here are a few images of this great annual International happening.
My impression of the city is: Comfort, Culture and Cleanliness. Not bad.
The festival is held in the old Colonial government buildings, all of them are now housing museums, theaters and cultural events.
Old and new, way back there our hotel towering above all.
My host Lim Cheng Tju who’s idea was to invite me.
Lim Cheng Tju writes about history and popular culture in Singapore.
With us was Indonesian graphic novelist Tita Larasati. Her beautiful
autobiographical diary like work is a must see.
Here, in panel with the 2014 Pulitzer Price Winner poet Vijay Seshadri.
With artist Troy Chin author of The Resident Tourist discussing Visual Storytelling: Autobiography. The moderator, graphic artist and literary critic, Gwee Li Sui.
It was also nice to catch up with my friend Suat Ng Tong who has written reviews for The Comics Journal since 1993 and was the editor of the Eisner and Harvey nominated Rosetta anthologies. Here at dinner with his wife May Ling.
It was all in a gentle genteel vein.
February 3, 2017
This just in. If you love the Bible and comics (you might if you regularly visit this page) this is a most interesting
program which comes out of the Exhibit of Bible in Comics in Israel where I was happily teamed up with Chris Ware and other giants. Of course getting there is most inconvenient but we will go.
As part of the exhibition there will be a symposium and I am most interested to hear Assaf Gamzu, Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer Sherman whom I never met but he wrote about my work a number of times. The campus, a Quaker establishment is something one must visit.
You can find all the information about the exhibit and the symposium on the Haverford website.
April 30, 2016
From ‘A Particular Hunger’, Page 8.
I am honored that a page from my short comic “A Particular Hunger” is accepted into the juried Comic & Cartoon Art Annual exhibit at the Society Of Illustrators.
The nine page story was published in Drawn & Quarterly‘s 25th Anniversary book. It is in the Short Form category and the exhibit will be up from July 19th through August 20th.
April 11, 2016
The following is entirely written by my Mom:
Did everybody know that April is Conference month? It is what I came to know when I noticed that I am spending much time on “planes, cars and trains and other things that move” and meeting wonderful people and eating fabulous foods that someone explained to me that April is Conference month.
Well, glad to be part of the movement. Princeton was awesome, I sketched a lot but don’t have the time yet to organize it while getting ready for the talk in Williams Paterson college today along with Dean Haspiel, Gregory Benton and Crista Cassano. Then to Columbus Ohio, the Graphic Details exhibit is there now in the fabulous Comic museum they have.
In a few days I will be the key-note speaker at this conference in Israel:
“Anti-Semitism and Hatred of ‘The Other’ in Caricatures Conference” Collaboration between the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, CSEP in Beer Sheva University and the Israeli Cartoon Museum. This conference was supposed to be about “The Rising Antisemitism in Europe” but after the tragedy in Paris and also in Copenhagen it is taking up a whole other meaning.
I am both greatly honored but also a bit scared. More about all this later.
Meanwhile these pictures I love, Rutu Modan, Geoff and Ester Szep, from the Eotvos Lorand University all the way from Budapest and Rutu with Liana Finck.
Much more in May.
April 21, 2015