Talmud Comix!!!
Yonah Lavery up in Toronto has created a whole series of comix based on (and generally pretty faithful to) Tractate Brachot.
She’s got a bunch of the better-known stories, like when Bruria gives R. Meir the smackdown for praying for the wrong thing and R. Elezar Ben Azaria’s election to head of the Sanhedrin and God’s tefillin, but also some of the, uh, quirkier moments in the tractate, like some of the business with rooster cursings and (a personal favorite) the recipe for seeing demons that involves cat placenta. Also, I love this illustration alluding to the death of Bruria.
It’s pretty awesome. Go check it out here.
(ETA: There’s some great miscellany on the site, too, like this amazing portrait of Kafka. Go root around.)
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I am a big fan of her work – The details are so amazing. Can’t wait to see her work published in book form! Hope someone will publish it soon.
—Tovah · January 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
[...] See here for some comic/graphic novel illustrations from the Talmud. If you enjoy either comics, the Talmud, or both, they’re worth a look. (hat tip) [...]
—Talmud in Comics « Menachem Mendel · January 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
wow this is great stuff!
—chillul Who? · January 29th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Yes, HQB”H wraps both outward AND inward! (Check the orientation of the tefillin pic)
—B.BarNavi · January 29th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Re: HQB”H – hah. You can really tell the ones I did before I was committed to laying tefillin from the ones after – they’re so easy to mess up drawing if you don’t see them regularly. But I like your explanation much better.
—Yonah · January 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pm