Comics

Tel Aviv's Animix festival combines political satire, cartoons with tributes, memorials, lectures

Alongside tributes and lectures, five-day event packs in live performances, gaming, and comics fair.

CARTOON ANIMALS by lifetime achievement award winner Dovi Keich.
People gather in the exhibition hall during the opening day of Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, US, July 23, 2026.

Marvel unveils upcoming film lineup, including 'Ghost Rider,' 'Black Panther 3,' at Comic-Con

THE CHIZBATRON, (1948) by Arieh Navon

Ink and irony: A closer look at the cartoonist who chronicled Israel’s formative years

 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum acquires rare World War II-era Captain America comics


20 years ago, Marvel introduced a Jewish Black Panther

For a brief period exactly 20 years ago, the most overtly Jewish of all mainstream superheroes was the Black Panther.

 Madame Tussauds London unveils it's new waxwork of the Marvel figure Black Panther, as it prepares to re-open to the public following the easing of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in London, Britain, May 14, 2021.

An Asian-Jewish superhero fights the 1970s Chinese mob in comic book debut

Fabrice Sapolsky discusses Jewish influences on comic books and the Kaifeng Jewish community.

 EAST MARKET Street, Kaifeng, 1910. The city synagogue is beyond the row of stores, R.

'Gal Gadot is doing a great job as Wonder Woman' - Ana de Armas

Ana de Armas wqas asked about a rumor that she will play Wonder Woman instead of Gal Gadot, but she replied that Gadot should keep doing it.

Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman 1984

Al Jaffee, iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist, dies at 102

For cartoon consumers associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement Jaffee’s most important contribution came in a different publication, The Moshiach Times.

Festival special guest Sam Viviano has been art director of ‘Mad’ magazine for over 18 years

A graphic novel of the Purim story, from a Batman comics editor

Gorfinkel’s newest project combines those two passions into a graphic novel version of the Purim story, usually read in what’s called a Megillah scroll.

 People read the megillah on Purim night, March 17, 2022.

The Davai comedy group brings 'under construction' to Israel

The Davai physical theater group offers a wordless fun fantasy world

 The Davai comedic troupe is bringing its show 'under construction' to Israel next week

Happy 50th anniversary of the Dry Bones cartoons

The Dry Bones cartoonist, who has been called a “national treasure of the Jewish people,” has received many awards, such as the Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Award and The Golden Pencil Award.

 Yaakov Kirschen at work, and one of his Dry Bones classic cartoons.

Transformative Jewish cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb dies at 74

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who died Wednesday at 74 in France of pancreatic cancer, was Jewish cartoonist Robert Crumb's longtime partner.

 Aline Crumb and Robert Crumb attend A Night at Crumbland celebrating Stella McCartney and Robert Crum Collaboration and the R. Crumb Handbook at the Stella McCartney Store, in New York City, April 12, 2005.

Jerusalem highlights October 28-November 3

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 ‘A FABLE about the world.’

'A Visit to Moscow': An otherworldly story of escaping antisemitism - review

In A Visit to Moscow, Yevgenia Nayberg’s drawings create a striking backdrop to Olswanger’s text. Her palette changes according to the story, adding to the effect of the words.

 CLEANING A vandalized tomb reading ‘Death to Jews!’ at a Jewish cemetery near Moscow, 1998. The book describes experiencing and escaping antisemitism during the Soviet Union era.