WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 @ 5:30pm EST:
“JEWS & COMICS: a Past & Present History” webinar via NY Adventure Club!
On a date that carries such profound sadness for the Jewish community, we hope a program celebrating the remarkable Jewish legacy of comics and superheroes can offer a small measure of comfort and bring something positive to an otherwise difficult day.
One day in 1933, two 18-year-old aspiring newspaper cartoonists from Cleveland, writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, created a character whom they would sell to the very comic book company who worked with Gaines: Superman! Thus began the history of comic books and superheroes, largely created by American Jews like Siegel and Shuster, and so many others that followed!
So join New York Adventure Club and comic book and pop culture historian Arlen Schumer (author/designer, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) as he explores the specific Jewish creation of the American superhero and its antecedents in older, ancient myths—from the Golem to Ben Grimm, as it were—and how they sparked a 20th Century American pop culture explosion that has only gained in prominence and popularity here in the 21st Century!