In a bizarre sidebar to the current Agriprocessors' scandals, Agriprocessors' chief rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandl condemned "boys and girls flying together" in superhero genre comic books as immodest and un-Jewish.
Of course, Jews – many of them very committed Jews – played a major role in creating the comic book industry and art form.
Eli Valley has…
… written (and drawn) a review in comic strip form of a new book, Jews and American Comics. in today's Forward:
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If I could draw like Eli Valley, Agriprocessors woes would be turned into a graphic novel in a heartbeat, "boys and girls flying together" and all.