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JewCE 2024: Leadership and Legacy: Trina Robbins Tribute

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

The JewCE Award for Career Achievement is named after Trina Robbins, who received award in 2023. Robbins passed away in 2024 and was a famed cartoonist and comics ‘herstorian’ who wrote graphic novels, books, and comics, many of them with Jewish subjects, for over half a century. Her subjects ranged from the Eisner Award-nominated A Minyen Yidn, an adaptation of her father’s Yiddish book, a graphic biography of Holocaust survivor Lily Renée, and her own Jewish teenage superheroine, GoGirl! She won multiple Eisner Awards and was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Wizard World Hall of Legends in 2017. Hear from those who knew her and celebrate Trina’s singular contributions in this tribute panel that will touch on her leadership and trailblazing legacy.

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JewCE 2024: Israeli Graphic Novels After October 7

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

October 7 forever changed life in Israeli society and for Jews around the world, especially in America. Join Uri Fink one of Israel’s leading comic book artists and creator the comic series “Zbeng”, award-winning illustrator and cartoonist Koren Shadmi, writer, actor, and voice actor Omri Rose, and bestselling non-fiction author Sean Wise as they discuss how graphic novels, including their works “The Heart of 10.7” and “Echoes of October,” are dealing with this current moment and looking to the future.

Watch the panel from JewCE 2024.

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JewCE 2023: Telling Other People’s Stories

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

To go along with the Jewish Comics Experience exhibition, JewCE held a convention with numerous panels highlighting the history of comics and it connection to Jewish culture and history. Taking place in November, the convention has now released all of the panels for streaming and to watch on demand.

Who gets to write the story of a people, person, or event? How can you approach a historical or contemporary story that isn’t your own with empathy, understanding of the subject, audience, and your own influence as a creator? Join us to hear from a group of creators who have approached this craft from multiple vantages and hear their take on the nuance and subtlety of retelling.

Moderated by Julian Voloj, the panel features Tracy White, Stephanie Phillips, Koren Shadmi, and Neil Kleid.

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Humanoids’ The Incal to Twilight Man Humble Book Bundle is a treasury of groundbreaking comics

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Graphic Policy Team

Lose yourself in celebrated fantasy, sci-fi, and biographical comic fiction in The Incal to Twilight Man Book Bundle, a massive collection from Humanoids! Journey to a surreal dystopia of Metabarons and Technopriests in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s influential The Incal, featuring art by the legendary Mœbius. Step into the dimension of TV legend Rod Serling’s mind in Koren Shadmi’s The Twilight Man. Discover tales of time-traveling photographers (Luisa: Now & Then), unstoppable forces (Armies), and much, much more across 100+ volumes—and help support the Freedom to Read Foundation.

The bundle features $1,406 of releases and you can get them all for just $25!