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This is the real stuff right here.
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I think a lot about a photograph that is somewhere in my parents’ house (which itself has always been a moving target). The photo depicts my two brothers and me, when I was about age four, sitting around a recently lit Hanukkah menorah, in our pajamas with damp hair from a bath. We are all smiling in that amazing way that only childhood photos can convey, encapsulating a childhood and freezing what was likely a chaotic evening with three boys under age six and turning it into a tableau of happiness and serenity. I don’t remember posing for the picture, much less the evening or the celebration of Hanukkah that preceded the photograph. But the photograph creates a different kind of visual memory, so that when I think about Hanukkah in my childhood I feel some element of the warmth of the towel after the bath, the cleanness, the water in my ears. Hanukkah is a holiday of commemoration, but I tend to remember Hanukkahs past more than I can remember an internecine conflict or an implausible miracle. This is personal memory transformed into an anchor for Jewish engagement and participation; after all, I want my own children’s memories of Jewish life in our home to also feel warm and happy. Beyond this one photo and that one episode, when I think about my upbringing, I can remember the sense of all the holidays and Shabbat celebrations in our house; but that memory has become a composite feeling, a disconnected and thus strange emotional relationship to the past - rather than an identifiable set of images or mechanically understood experiences.
-“Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past” by Yehuda Kurtzer. I love Yehuda’s brain so much. It’s a privilege to be his colleague, and even moreso to get to learn from him.
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WHAT?!?!?!
Chris Sims, Chad Bowers & Erica Henderson!?!?
You know this is going to be a rad book. Go on. Pre-order. <———-
Finally, it’s announced! Chad, Erica, Josh and I have a brand new book from Monkeybrain, SUBATOMIC PARTY GIRLS! It’s about rock band that gets stranded in outer space, and it’s going to be awesome.
You can pre-order the first sixteen-page issue (plus bonuses) today at Comixology for a mere 99 cents, and it’ll be released on May 22nd!
If you’re following me, you’re probably already familiar with Chad, me and Josh from Awesome Hospital (and Josh also letters Dracula the Unconquered), but if you don’t know Erica’s work from the latest issue of Atomic Robo: Real Science Adventures, you need to check her out immediately. She’s amazing.
While I am excited about this, I’m also deeply surprised to see Chris Sims describing something as awesome.
Posted on May 8, 2013 via monkeybrain comics with 89 notes
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Society6 is great and all, but with convention season warming up, it was time to have some new prints made up that I could actually sell to folks in person!
So, I got 12 new prints done up all fancy like, and they are now for sale in my Etsy shop!
These are super-nice prints and I’m selling them:
1 for $10
2 for $16
3 for $20 (See how they get cheaper the more you buy?)BUT WAIT! IT GETS BETTER!
In celebration of Free Comic Book Day if you buy any of the prints (or anything else from my Etsy), I’ll also draw you a FREE SKETCH of any comic character you like!
Can’t beat free, right?
Obviously, I’d like to do as many free sketches as possible, so your reblogs and retweets and however else you can spread the word is very, very appreciated.
THE LINK TO MY ETSY ONCE AGAIN
My best to you all, and have a happy Free Comic Book Day!
xo
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Donate to My Online Auction
I’m proud to run an organization called Limmud NY, which is a grassroots, volunteer-led Jewish learning community.
From the middle of May until early June, we’re going to be holding an online auction to raise much-needed funds to support our programming. We’re currently seeking people to offer various goods and services to make the auction a success, and so I thought it was worthwhile to reach out to my creative/comics community to solicit some donations.
To give you a sense of 1-2 things that will be auctioned off (at least from me), I’m personally offering to take a winner and three friends to Brooklyn Farmacy for Soda Jerk lessons (yes, this means Egg Creams) and dessert with Farmacy co-founder Peter Freeman. I may well put up my comic book collection for auction as well.
If there is anything that you might be willing to offer (a sketch/sketchbook, an autographed set of books, etc…or really anything else that might be worthwhile) to this auction, it would be a HUGE deal for us. Remember, it is in fact for a good cause.
You can be directly in touch with me at wolkin @ limmudny.org for more information, or you can click here.
If you’d like to go directly to the auction site to submit items (nothing is publicly listed yet), then you can go to biddingforgood.com/limmudny.
Thanks for reading and sharing!
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Comics Alliance<Comics Defiance
— PULPHOPE (@PULPH0PE)
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At suggestion of @David_Wolkin, the quickly illustrated version of my adventure wherein I am peed upon by a foster rabbit.
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Daaaamn. This is a cover for something I want to read and/or see in movie form.
I like this, yes.
Posted on April 28, 2013 via Megatrip. with 91 notes
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Unlike a teacher-student relationship, in which the student memorizes and repeats the material back in tests, chavruta-style learning puts each student in the position of analyzing the text, organizing his thoughts into logical arguments, explaining his reasoning to his partner, hearing out his partner’s reasoning, and questioning and sharpening each other’s ideas, often arriving at entirely new insights into the meaning of the text.
Chavruta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A type of dyad pointed out to me by #TeamBeloved member David Wolkin. I like this a lot, and it’s by far my preferred method of learning. I don’t get much out of the traditional church (or school, really) structure, where one dude tells you what he thinks from a pulpit and you can either nod, amen, or take a nap instead of getting mad at him. I like to conversate and argue and talk it out. Sunday School is a little closer, but still not quite there. A chavruta sounds dead-on, though, especially if both parties come to it with different specialties.
(via iamdavidbrothers)
ONLINE CHAVRUTA, SON.
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The iconic carpeting of The Shining and Twin Peaks collide.
Artist: Jared Lyon
(via zebrazygotes)
Posted on April 24, 2013 via The Overlook Hotel with 2,516 notes
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One of the best parts of my job is that it occasionally leads to things like this.
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If you’re at all interested in hearing my opinions about this year’s Eisner nominations over a crappy Skype connection, head over to War Rocket Ajax where you can hear me, David Wolkin and Matt Wilson do just that! I know, I know! This must be so exciting for you!
Hey! I was on a podcast!
Hey! So was I!
Posted on April 22, 2013 via Guttersniper with 11 notes
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omer 2013: day 26
David - “I tend to keep it pretty simple, but there are 1-2 rules/idiosyncrasies.
1. Got my keys, so I can lock and unlock doors and such. Keychain is from the Hi-Way Drive-In Theatre in Upstate NY, a favorite place of mine.
2. Got my keycards, so I can find my way into my place of…My pal Jaq made art out of my anxiety.
Posted on April 20, 2013 via omer 2013 with 3 notes
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Hey gang!
It would be a huge favor to me if you’d go vote for it.. and when I say vote for it, I mean vote it a 5.
And then, it would be an even bigger solid to me if after you’ve voted it a 5, you reblogged this/tweeted about it/did whatever you can to help me spread the word.
These are basically the two biggest favors you could possibly do me right now, so I thank you in advance.
Hopefully some day, I will be able to return the favor.
Once again: VOTE HERE
xo
ch
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