It's getting closer and closer to the launch of my third book in the "Visual History" series from Fantagraphics. As many of you know by now, the topic this time is Jewish culture and Jewish History and the manuscript for Jewish Images in the Comics is by now at the publishers.
One thing that I have done for every book in this series is ask an artist to draw a special illustration for the title page inside of the book.
For Black Images in the Comics (which will be out in a new paperback edition in a few months), Patrik Norrman drew a beautiful Janus-styled portrait of the depiction of Black people, with one half showing a racist "native" with a bone through the nose, and the other half a realistically represented Black man.
For The Comics go to Hell, I asked artist Daniel Novakovic to draw a similar Janus inspired illustration with two very different ideas of what the devil might look like. Again a really beautiful illustration that captured the essence of the book.
And no, the cover illustration was not done by Novakovic, but by Jamie Hernandez, who also did an outstanding job, actually putting me on the cover in the guise of the Devil.
And now it's time for Jewish Images in the Comics. I have once again chosen a very good artist to draw an illustration, which can be seen above, again showing a racist/antisemitic half set against a realistic rendering of a Jewish man.
I am very pleased with the results, and the question I want to pose to you now is, who has drawn this image? Can you guess?
