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Captain America, the eponymous hero of this comic series, was given a backstory similar to that of one of his creators, Jack Kirby. Like Kirby, Captain America was born on New York’s Lower East Side…
Elaine Lustig Cohen designed this catalog cover for the Jewish Museum in New York’s exhibition, Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, at a time when she was developing a bold new…
The Spirit was launched in 1940 as a special supplement for newspapers, designed to help them compete with the crime and superhero comic magazines, which were then wildly popular. It ran as a…
This calligraphic print appears in Ben Shahn’s book Alphabet of Creation, based on a tale about how God created the world through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet taken from the Zohar, a thirteenth…
This ad for an exhibition at California State University Fullerton was intended as a manifesto. The artist Judy Gerowitz announced that she was divesting herself of “all names imposed upon her through…
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…
An illustration for the monthly magazine Harper’s, The Thirty-Second Indiana Regiment (Colonel Willich) Building Pontoons in Kentucky was likely drawn by Henry Mosler during the Civil War. Engravings…
Over its more than fifty-two years of publication, Mad Magazine skewered everyone from politicians to movie stars, with a particular dedication to rooting out hypocrisy. Here it spoofs its own genre…
The Strabismic Jew is one of Baskin's most famous prints. “Strabismic” means “squinting” and, indeed, the Yiddish inscription reads “The Jew with the squinty eyes.” In this enigmatic woodcut, the face…
