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.

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.