Awards

• Winner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Scholarly/Academic) 2015

Overview

"The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed exhibition ""Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women."" The comics are enhanced by original essays and interviews with the artists that provide further insight into the creation of autobiographical comics that resonate beyond self, beyond gender, and beyond ethnicity."

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an engaging book...recommended --Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews Graphic Details succeeds as a stand-alone guidebook to some of the best Jewish women comics artists working today --Jewish Book Council a much-needed book both because of its specific information and for the fact it touches on subjects long ignored --Lilith Magazine a wonderful resource...Lightman is clearly a tour de force, and the energy and care required to assemble [this book] produced a vital, hybrid, indubitably important volume from which people can discover and appreciate new idioms --Koninklijke Brill NV, Hillary Chute in Images Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews is an overdue, indispensable, and enthralling look at some of the best cartoonists working today. --Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Are You My Mother? This fascinating book opens the door to a world most of us did not know existed: the graphic universe created by Jewish women comics artists. Through interviews, biographies, personal reflections, and critical essays, Graphic Details provides an astonishing guided tour of contemporary sequential art at the forefront of visual culture. If the combination of Jewish, women, funny, comics, and art seems perplexing at first glance, the pages of Sarah Lightman's beautifully curated collection will change your mind. A must-read. --Nancy K. Miller, author of What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past.

an engaging book...recommended --Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews Graphic Details succeeds as a stand-alone guidebook to some of the best Jewish women comics artists working today --Jewish Book Council a much-needed book both because of its specific information and for the fact it touches on subjects long ignored --Lilith Magazine a wonderful resource...Lightman is clearly a tour de force, and the energy and care required to assemble [this book] produced a vital, hybrid, indubitably important volume from which people can discover and appreciate new idioms --Koninklijke Brill NV, Hillary Chute in Images Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews is an overdue, indispensable, and enthralling look at some of the best cartoonists working today. --Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Are You My Mother? This fascinating book opens the door to a world most of us did not know existed: the graphic universe created by Jewish women comics artists. Through interviews, biographies, personal reflections, and critical essays, Graphic Details provides an astonishing guided tour of contemporary sequential art at the forefront of visual culture. If the combination of Jewish, women, funny, comics, and art seems perplexing at first glance, the pages of Sarah Lightman's beautifully curated collection will change your mind. A must-read. --Nancy K. Miller, author of What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past.

Author Information

Sarah Lightman is a frequent contributor to academic journals including Studies in Comics, The Cincinnati Review and International Journal of Comic Art. She is a Director of Laydeez do Comics, the UK’s first monthly comics forum focusing on domestic drama with branches around the world. She lives in London.

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