Graphic Novelist Workshop – Veteran’s Day Vacation Camp for 9-15 year olds / Age 9-15 - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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92NY Bronfman Center for Jewish Life

Graphic Novelist Workshop

Age 9-15
Graphic Novelist Workshop

Spend a day with 6 award-winning Graphic Novelists!

Each of these artists has been featured in the Jewish Comics Experience (JEWCE). Their works express stories of Jewish Identity, snapshots of Jewish history, retelling of texts and folktales, anthropomorphic ritual items and even a "dough-lem!" 

Small group workshops with each artist will provide framework for students to create their own work and receive feedback from a published graphic novelist. Opportunities to hear from each artist about how they develop their stories, their artistic and writing methods, and the production process will also be included in the day. Participants will come home with their own copy of published works from each artist.

A kosher lunch will be provided for all registrants.

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This program is part of the Gilda and Henry Block School of the Arts.
This program is part of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life.
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Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 9 am - 4:30 pm ET

  • Price: from $250.00
  • Instructor: Emily Bowen Cohen, Josh Edelglass, Jordan Gorfinkle, Chari Pere, Arnon Shorr, Mat Tonti
  • Day(s): Mon
  • Sessions: 1
  • Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St

Instructors

Emily Bowen Cohen

Emily Bowen Cohen

Emily Bowen Cohen creates comics that explore intersectional identity. She is Jewish and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She uses personal experience to tell stories that examine contemporary American and Jewish culture. Emily grew up in rural Oklahoma. Her father was the Chief of Staff at their tribal hospital and her mother is a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey. After her father’s early death Emily was separated from her Native family. A decade later, she returned to Oklahoma for a bittersweet homecoming. She drew on her personal experiences to create her debut graphic novel, ...
Emily Bowen Cohen

Emily Bowen Cohen

Emily Bowen Cohen creates comics that explore intersectional identity. She is Jewish and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She uses personal experience to tell stories that examine contemporary American and Jewish culture. Emily grew up in rural Oklahoma. Her father was the Chief of Staff at their tribal hospital and her mother is a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey. After her father’s early death Emily was separated from her Native family. A decade later, she returned to Oklahoma for a bittersweet homecoming. She drew on her personal experiences to create her debut graphic novel, Two Tribes, published by HarperCollins Native-focused imprint, Heartdrum, in August 2023.
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Graphic Novelist Workshop


Josh Edelglass

Josh Edelglass

Joshua M. Edelglass is the Co-Director of Camp Ramah New England. Josh illustrated Brother’s Keeper (2023), telling a true story from Israel’s 1948 War for Independence, and the graphic novel José and the Pirate Captain Toledano (Kar-Ben,2022), a swashbuckling adventure about Jewish pirates that’s also a story about connecting to one’s Jewish heritage. Both were written by Arnon Shorr. Josh’s illustrations have appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines, and he illustrated stories for both volumes of The Jewish Comics Anthology, published by Alternate ...
Josh Edelglass

Josh Edelglass

Joshua M. Edelglass is the Co-Director of Camp Ramah New England. Josh illustrated Brother’s Keeper (2023), telling a true story from Israel’s 1948 War for Independence, and the graphic novel José and the Pirate Captain Toledano (Kar-Ben,2022), a swashbuckling adventure about Jewish pirates that’s also a story about connecting to one’s Jewish heritage. Both were written by Arnon Shorr. Josh’s illustrations have appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines, and he illustrated stories for both volumes of The Jewish Comics Anthology, published by Alternate History Comics. Josh’s artwork has appeared in numerous exhibitions, including Pow! Jewish Comics Art and Influence (Brooklyn, 2018), JOMIX — Jewish Comics: Art and Derivation (New York & Philadelphia, 2016); and The Jew as the Other (New York, 2015).
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Graphic Novelist Workshop


Jordan Gorfinkle

Jordan Gorfinkle

I’m Gorf, veteran DC Comics Batman Manager, and I use my superhero experience (Dark Knight Rises; Birds of Prey) and my Jewish graphic novels (Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel; Esther Graphic Novel) to draw Jewish people together for Shabbat scholar in residence, multi-media presentations and the Jewish Cartoon Workshop with my inspirational message: MAKE JUDAISM YOUR SUPERPOWER!
Jordan Gorfinkle

Jordan Gorfinkle

I’m Gorf, veteran DC Comics Batman Manager, and I use my superhero experience (Dark Knight Rises; Birds of Prey) and my Jewish graphic novels (Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel; Esther Graphic Novel) to draw Jewish people together for Shabbat scholar in residence, multi-media presentations and the Jewish Cartoon Workshop with my inspirational message: MAKE JUDAISM YOUR SUPERPOWER!
This instructor's work

This instructor is currently teaching the following classes:

Graphic Novelist Workshop


Chari Pere

Chari Pere

Chari Pere has created content for The Washington Post’s The Lily and Mad Magazine, and has collaborated with NYT bestselling author Gretchen Rubin and actress Mayim Bialik. She has worked as a creative director and illustrator/storyboard artist on projects for Red Bull, Jockey, Disney, Comedy Central, and Bud Light. Chari launched the "Unspoken" Cartoon series as part of the 2024 Jewish Writers' Initiative Digital Storytellers Lab Fellowship.
Chari Pere

Chari Pere

Chari Pere has created content for The Washington Post’s The Lily and Mad Magazine, and has collaborated with NYT bestselling author Gretchen Rubin and actress Mayim Bialik. She has worked as a creative director and illustrator/storyboard artist on projects for Red Bull, Jockey, Disney, Comedy Central, and Bud Light. Chari launched the "Unspoken" Cartoon series as part of the 2024 Jewish Writers' Initiative Digital Storytellers Lab Fellowship.
This instructor's work

This instructor is currently teaching the following classes:

Graphic Novelist Workshop


Arnon Shorr

Arnon Shorr

Arnon Z. Shorr is a writer/director of character-driven adventures and thrillers, where heroes grapple with the extraordinary, and in doing so, learn important truths about themselves. He is also a writer of books, comics and graphic novels. Arnon spent most of his childhood between worlds: a Hebrew speaker in America, a private school kid with no money, a suburbanite in a rented apartment. So he tells stories that embrace the peculiar, where encounters with the strange reveal who we are. Arnon’s screenplays include a Page finalist and a Launch Pad top-50. And his swa ...
Arnon Shorr

Arnon Shorr

Arnon Z. Shorr is a writer/director of character-driven adventures and thrillers, where heroes grapple with the extraordinary, and in doing so, learn important truths about themselves. He is also a writer of books, comics and graphic novels. Arnon spent most of his childhood between worlds: a Hebrew speaker in America, a private school kid with no money, a suburbanite in a rented apartment. So he tells stories that embrace the peculiar, where encounters with the strange reveal who we are. Arnon’s screenplays include a Page finalist and a Launch Pad top-50. And his swashbuckling graphic novel, José and the Pirate Captain Toledano, is an expansion of his award-winning short film about Jewish pirates in the 16th century Caribbean. He is a 2024 Fellow of the JWI Screenwriters Lab, and a 2024-25 Fellow of the PJ Library Sephardic Stories Initiative.
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Graphic Novelist Workshop


Mat Tonti

Mat Tonti

Mat Tonti has been creating characters and comics since he drew a knock off of Snoopy, entitled Zoopy, when he was in 1st grade. Since then comics has been a constant source of inspiration and exploration in terms of storytelling, structures, and styles. When Mat began exploring Jewish tradition in earnest, hearing stories from Torah, midrash, and Chassidus, it was a natural move to translate them into comics. He finally compiled a book’s worth of Jewish stories, and published The Book Of Secrets in 2020. He and his wife are currently adapting Glikl of Hamburg’s 17th century m ...
Mat Tonti

Mat Tonti

Mat Tonti has been creating characters and comics since he drew a knock off of Snoopy, entitled Zoopy, when he was in 1st grade. Since then comics has been a constant source of inspiration and exploration in terms of storytelling, structures, and styles. When Mat began exploring Jewish tradition in earnest, hearing stories from Torah, midrash, and Chassidus, it was a natural move to translate them into comics. He finally compiled a book’s worth of Jewish stories, and published The Book Of Secrets in 2020. He and his wife are currently adapting Glikl of Hamburg’s 17th century memoir into a graphic novel.
This instructor's work

This instructor is currently teaching the following classes:

Graphic Novelist Workshop


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