Judaic Studies 390J - Will Eisner/Jewish Graphic Nvl

2017 is the centennial of the birth of Will Eisner, Father of the Graphic Novel. This course will survey Eisner's creation of the modern graphic novel with A Contract with God, examine his many innovations in the form over the course of his thirty years creating Jewish-themed works, and study his final novels that fought anti-Semitism, Fagin the Jew and The Plot: The Secret History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.