jobnik! - Softcover

Miriam Libicki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097842770X ISBN 13: 9780978427702

Publisher: real gone girl studios, 2008

Synopsis

Miriam Libicki, an American Jewish girl from a religious home, enlists in the Israeli Army one summer against everyone's better judgment. Many qualities seem to make her unsuited for IDF life: her Hebrew isn't great, she is shy and passive, and she has a tendency to fall in love with anything that moves. If that weren't enough, the Al Aqsa uprising, a.k.a the second Palestinian Intifada, erupts a few weeks after she is stationed as a secretary in a remote Negev base. Will Miriam survive threats of terrorism, the rough IDF culture, and not least, her horrible taste in men?

About this title

About the Author:

Miriam Libicki was born in Columbus, Ohio. After living in Jerusalem and Seattle, Washington, she is now based in Vancouver, BC. She completed her Bachelor s of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute in 2006. She is the creator of the comic series, jobnik!, and the drawn essays Towards a Hot Jew, ceasefire, fierce ease and Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy! (published in The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches, from Rutgers University Press, December 2008).

Review:

"In this unusual but important autobiographical graphic novel, ... [t]he artist gives all the characters the startled sense of weight she gives her own character as if adult bodies were some vast surprise.... [P]art of the deadly innocence of youth is how the young can get inured to awful things, and the story shows this excellently well." --Publishers Weekly

"Libicki simultaneously charts her journey as raw recruit in the Israeli Defense Force and young girl painfully searching for intimacy. Love and peace, war and youth, the mixture is irresistible." --Stephen Notley, creator of Bob the Angry Flower

"The so-called comics experts tell us the Golden Age of comics is long past. I contend this isn t so. In fact, I suspect we re in comics golden age right now. In even the recent past, the amazing diversity of comics we enjoy today simply wasn t available or even possible. The idea of an autobiographical exploration of one young woman s years in the Israeli Defense Force, during the height of the second intifada, being published as a comic series, much less finding a readership, was an idiot s dream. Now it s not only possible, the book exists. Miriam Libicki s Jobnik! is proof that we re in the golden age of comics today." --Bill Willingham, author of Fables

About this edition

• Publisher: real gone girl studios
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 097842770X
• ISBN 13: 9780978427702
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152
• Illustrator: Miriam Libicki