who wants to be an Art Star?
A reworking of Miriam's first interview comic, with painting majors at Emily Carr Institute, about high-art adventures.
12 pages.
jobnik! issue 7
the new issue picks up where the graphic novel left off.
24 pages.
Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy!
The staple-bound stand-alone drawn essay "Jewish Memoir goes Pow! Zap! Oy!" originally made for and featured in "The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches."
24 pages.
The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches
With a cover painting by Miriam, an interview with Miriam, and the all-new drawn essay, "Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy!"
"The Jewish Graphic Novel" is a lively, interdisciplinary collection of essays that addresses critically acclaimed works in this subgenre of Jewish literary and artistic culture. Featuring insightful discussions of notable figures in the industry - such as Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, and Joann Sfar - the essays focus on how graphic novels are increasingly being used in Holocaust memoir and fiction, and to portray Jewish identity in America and abroad.
292 pages.
fierce ease
Watercolour + text portraits of Israel, reflecting on two years since the second Lebanon war, and on trying to reclaim one's Israelity.
12 pages.
jobnik!: an american girl's adventures in the israeli army
Miriam Libicki, an American Jewish girl from a religious home, enlists in the Israeli Army one summer against everyone's better judgment. Many qualities seem to make her unsuited for IDF life: her Hebrew isn't great, she is shy and passive, and she has a tendency to fall in love with anything that moves. If that weren't enough, the Al Aqsa uprising, a.k.a the second Palestinian Intifada, erupts a few weeks after she is stationed as a secretary in a remote Negev base. Will Miriam survive threats of terrorism, the rough IDF culture, and not least, her horrible taste in men?
152 pages
ceasefire
Watercolour + text snapshots and vignettes from a trip to Israel during the second Lebanon war.
8 pages.
Towards a Hot Jew: the Israeli Soldier as Fetish Object
A drawn essay examining the image of the Israeli soldier, its meanings, and its uses.
12 pages