Tahneer Oksman

Tahneer Oksman is an associate professor of Academic Writing at Marymount Manhattan College, the author of “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs (Columbia University Press, 2016), and the co-editor of the anthology, The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself (University Press of Mississippi, 2018). She often publishes reviews and interviews about graphic novels and illustrated works for publications including the Women’s Review of Books, The Believer, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Jewish Women’s Comics and Graphic Narratives

The history of Jewish women’s comics and graphic novels can be traced back to early and mid-20th-century progenitors. With the underground comics scene of the late 1960s/early 1970s, several Jewish women laid the groundwork for the themes, styles, and communal ties that would be taken up by the post-underground. In the 21st century, the works of Jewish women in comics and graphic novels is booming.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Tahneer Oksman." (Viewed on December 3, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/oksman-tahneer>.