Sarah Lightman

Dr. Sarah Lightman co-curated Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, an internationally touring exhibition of eighteen comics artists. She edited the first book on Jewish women and comics, the multi-award-winning Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (McFarland, 2014). Her first graphic novel is The Book of Sarah (Myriad Editions and Penn State University Press, 2019).

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Diane Noomin

Diane Noomin was an acclaimed cartoonist and editor and the creator of her alter ego, DiDi Glitz. Noomin was a central figure in women’s comics beginning with the early feminist publications of the 1970s. In 2011 she published an anthology of her work, Glitz-2-Go: Diane Noomin Collected Comics.

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Miriam Katin

Miriam Katin is an award-winning comics artist best known for her Holocaust memoir We Are On Our Own. She was born in Hungary and now lives in New York City with her husband, Geoffrey Katin, a music educator.

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