Tag Archives: 1930s

Beyond Graduation: Leaving and Returning Home

Posted on July 1, 2017 by rosinskynatalie

June brings proud smiles and commencement speeches for graduates of all ages. For many older grads, another rite of passage will soon follow: leaving home for college or that first full-time job. At least, this is the idealized version of … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, labor | Tagged 1930s, Cecil Castellucci, college, Dan E. Burr, Depression, girls in disguise, graduation, high school graduation, hobo justice, hobo signs, hobos, Jack Vance, Jose Pimienta, Kings in Disguise, On the Ropes, riding the rails, Soupy Leaves Home, Sullivan's Travels, teen-ager, teens, The Journey of Natty Gann, USA Depression, Wild Boys of the Road, William Wellman, women's education | Leave a comment

More or Less Grimm

Posted on December 1, 2016 by rosinskynatalie

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, and other festive occasions . . . . Two recent, compelling fairy tale volumes would make excellent gifts this holiday season. Matt Phelan’s Snow White: A Graphic Novel (2016) and Shaun Tan’s The Singing Bones … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books, sculpture, Uncategorized | Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Adelita, Christmas, Cinderella, Depression era, Ed Young, fairy tales, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, Hanukkah, holiday gifts, Inari Kiuru, Inuit art, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, John Steptoe, Kwanzaa, Little Red Cap, Lon Po Po, Matt Dembicki, Matt Phelan, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, Neil Gaiman, New York City, papier-mache, Philip Pullman, photographs, photography, pre-Columbian art, sculpture, Shaun Tan, Snow White: A Graphic Novel, the brothers Grimm, The Singing Bones, three-dimensional art, Tomie de Paola, Wilhelm Grimm, Winter Solstice | Leave a comment

Jews, Muslims, Christians: The Rabbi’s Cat Speaks

Posted on February 1, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

A skinny, big-eyed cat stands out among the responses cartoonists world-wide drew to last month’s terrorist attacks on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store in Paris. Sixteen people were slaughtered and others injured—all to honor those … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, Uncategorized | Tagged 1930s, A Moveable Feast, Algiers, Arabs, Askhenazi, Black Jews, Blacks, Brigitte Findakly, Cesar Award, Charlie Hebdo, Christians, Eisner Award, Ernest Hemingway, French author/illustrator, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, Herge, Instagram, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Islam, Islamic extremists, Islamic terrorists, Jewish, Jews, Joann Sfar, Little Vampire, Little Vampire Goes to School, Mohammed, Muslims, Paris, Pascin, racism, Sardine graphic novels, Sephardic, Soviet Russia, sub-Saharan Africa, terrorism, The Professor's Daughter, The Rabbi's Cat, The Rabbi's Cat 2, The Rabbi's Cat film, Tintin | Leave a comment

Faces of Labor: Family Albums, Library Shelves

Posted on September 4, 2013 by natalierosinsky

This Labor Day I am thinking of my mother . . . . In a 1940s photograph, her womanly face glows with confidence. She sits at a dinner table with a handful of men, their suits and ties matching her … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, labor | Tagged 1930s, Cesar Chavez, circus, Dan E. Burr, Ford Massacre, Fred Bloch, graphic novel, hobo signs, hobos, James Vance, Kings in Disguise, labor, Masks of ANarchy, Michael Demson, Mother Jones, Nicole Schulman, On the Ropes, Paul Buhle, Pauline Newman, Percy Bysse Shelley, Rosie the Riveter, Steel Strike, Summer McClinton, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, unions, violence, Wobblies!, workers, WPA, WPA Circus | Leave a comment