“It's that guttural, human voice; that's comics”
An Interview with Ken Krimstein
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22003497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vera J Camden (Kent State University, corresponding author), Valentino L Zullo (Ursuline College) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 70-86 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2150-4857 • E-ISSN: 2150-4865 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21504857.2022.2150248 |
| OpenAlex | W4311850769 |
| Language | EN |
In Summer 2022 we met with Ken Krimstein, cartoonist of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth and When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers. We discussed his process creating comics, his personal history with sequential art, and what led him to create in the form. He also shared insight into his forthcoming work on Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein and how he chooses his subjects. Finally, we considered the relationship between Jewish identity and comics leading us to think about the connection between Yiddish and comics: how both of these hybrid, popular, guttural voices take shape through concision
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cartoonist · Comics · Judaism · Literature · Politics · Theology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Digital Storytelling and Education · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |