Fagin the Jew
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Fagin the Jew is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner.[1]
In this book, Eisner retells the story of
The book was published by Doubleday in 2003. A tenth anniversary edition was published by Dark Horse in 2013.[2]
Reception
In his 2008 500 Essential Graphic Novels, comics scholar Gene Kannenberg Jr. praised it as "skillfully executed, thought provoking, and enlightening".[3]
New Internationalist called the book "sensitive", and a "remind[er to] cartoonists of the power of their pens and their responsibility to distinguish between good and bad stereotyping."[4]
Publishers Weekly lauded its illustrations as "gorgeously expressive", emphasizing that "no one can convey a story through body language like Eisner", but faulted the narrative as "err[ing] on the side of extreme coincidence and melodrama", with an "awkwardly simplified run-through of Dickens' plot" and a "constant stream of expository dialogue [that] becomes laughable".[5]
Booklist likewise found the narrative "starkly melodramatic [and] agenda-driven", and "lack[ing] nuance", but nonetheless considered the book to be "heartfelt", and compared it to John Gardner's Grendel.[6]
See also
References
- ISBN 0-385-51009-8.
- ^ "Fagin the Jew 10th Anniversary HC :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics".
- archive.org)
- ^ Fagin the Jew, reviewed by John Stuart Clark, in New Internationalist; March 2006 issue; p. 18
- ^ Fagin the Jew, reviewed at Publishers Weekly; published November 17, 2003; retrieved April 27, 2022
- ^ Fagin the Jew, reviewed by Gordon Flagg, at Booklist; by Gordon Flagg; published September 1, 2003, by the American Library Association; retrieved May 3, 2022
External links
- Fagin the Jew at Random House
- Fagin the Jew at Will Eisner.com
- review by Adi Tantimedh Archived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Andrew D. Arnold (September 19, 2003). "Never Too Late". Time magazine.
- Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies newsletter, December 2003 (included brief discussion of Fagin the Jew)
- "Eisner pioneered the adult graphic novel" by Shlomo Schwartzberg from the Canadian Jewish News, September 2004