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Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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Comic strip with eight images of the same bearded man in robes with text next to each version of him.
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Sick, Sick, Sick

Sick, Sick, Sick was very different from other comic strips of the 1950s. It had the format of a comic strip but did not have conventional story lines or superheroes. Instead, it was more like an…
Cartoon drawing of man with three heads and many hands reaching in different directions, the hands in center typing on a large typewriter, a hand to the left holding a conducting baton, another hand holding a phone, and a hand to the right holding a pen.
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Leonard Bernstein

Al Hirschfeld was most famous for his caricatures of actors, musicians, and other figures from the arts and public life. He himself preferred to be known as a “characterist.” After the birth of his…
Comic strip featuring a title and heading across the top in French, and eight panels of comics below. The comics portray warriors, a man against several opponents, two warriors, a stylized map of France, a map of enemy tents, a warrior on a chair interrupted by a boy, two warriors talking, and four warriors talking while hiding behind a tree.
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Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover

Astérix le Gaulois is set in the first century BCE, during Rome’s conquest of Gaul (France), focusing on the inhabitants of a small village who, given superhuman strength by a magic potion prepared by…
Line drawing of a fence and several mushrooms in the grass in front of it, with smiling egg wearing a mushroom cap on right side of fence.
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The Egg That Disguised Itself

Poet and scholar Dan Pagis wrote and illustrated a children’s book about an egg, which, searching for an alternate identity, tries unsuccessfully to disguise itself as a flower, a mushroom, a clock…
Pop art painting using Ben Day dots of man and woman's face in profile, looking at a canvas to the left with a large speech bubble over their heads.
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Masterpiece

The title of Masterpiece offers an ironic commentary on the career of its rising star artist, Roy Lichtenstein. It features a blonde woman and “Brad,” a recurring character in Lichtenstein’s comic…
Drawing of two figures holding guns, next to a snake, a baby in a crib, and a man with an axe in his head.
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Zoo Eretz Zoo

God creates the universe in seven days. Soon after the job’s done, he throws Adam and Eve out of their place for disobeying orders. The couple…
Drawing of six figures sitting at the far side of a set table and a peacock on the near side.
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Peacock Thanksgiving

An imaginary Thanksgiving dinner attended by the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty, George Washington, a Halloween witch, and a strutting peacock. A version of this…
Comic book page with title across the top over bird's-eye view of city streets, and English text below about summer in tenements.
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Cookalein

“Cookalein” is a story from Will Eisner’s graphic novel, A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories. The “cookalein” (or kuchalein, “cook for yourself”) was a popular and affordable type of…
Comic book page split into six panels featuring a man facing the viewer in several panels and the rest with him in line at the supermarket, and English text describing waiting behind Jewish ladies at the supermarket.
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American Splendor

“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…