On the outside, the interfaith comedic coupling of Lahna Turner and Ralphie May seems like an odd match: Lahna is a stunning Jewish Canadian who blends witty spoken-word pieces with off-color songs, while Ralphie is a morbidly obese Southern comic who delivers jokes with hip-hop flava and subscribes to Flip Wilson\’s Church of What\’s Happenin\’ Now.
In the biopic "American Splendor," cranky comic book icon Harvey Pekar frets in the supermarket. "This may be the shortest line, but I\’m taking a risk because it\’s an old Jewish lady," he says. When the woman argues with the manager, he storms out of the store.
When Marvel Comics founding father Stan Lee created Daredevil in 1964, he tagged his blind superhero: \”Man Without Fear.\”
Genndy Tartakovsky will be among the hot names attending next week\’s Eighth Annual World Animation Celebration. Co-sponsored by Animation Magazine and Variety, the Hollywood festival will kick-start a week of symposiums addressing cartoon industry issues.
The Jewish American contribution to the comic book world is so vast and invaluable it can fill a library. In addition to James Sturm, here\’s a look at some Jewish talent scheduled to appear at the July 19-22 San Diego Comic-Con 2001 at the San Diego Convention Center.
Jewish roots in predominantly Catholic Poland can be traced back to the 11th century. But when an estimated 88 percentof the 3.3 million Jews in Poland died in the Holocaust, the country\’s thriving Yiddish theater, literature and culture ceased to exist as well.
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