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Influential Jewish comics legend Will Eisner gets a retrospective in Chelsea

JL;DR SUMMARY Will Eisner, a seminal figure in the comic book industry and a pioneer of the graphic novel, is honored with a retrospective exhibition at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in Chelsea, New York City. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish ImmigrantsArt SpiegelmanComicsGraphic NovelsThe Protocols Of The Elders Of ZionWill EisnerThe SpiritA Contract With GodFagin The Jew

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New York City, New York, United States
"An exhibition spotlighting the 60-year career of Jewish cartoonist and writer Will Eisner, considered the father of the graphic novel, will be on view in New York City starting Thursday evening."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Eisner, who showed an interest in and talent for drawing at a young age, was born in Brooklyn in 1917 to Jewish immigrant parents."
Bronx, New York, United States
"As a student at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, Eisner created illustrations for school publications, and in 1936, his friend Bob Kane a fellow Jewish cartoonist who would go on to co-create Batman encouraged Eisner to enter the then-burgeoning comics scene."
London, United Kingdom
"In Eisners version, Fagin grows up in Londons Ashkenazi communities, forced into crime by cruel fate and crueler prejudice, according to a Publishers Weekly review."
Russian Federation
"which was first published in Russia in 1903."

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