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“Tablet” Magazine on Hereville: “Perfect Throughout”!

Marjorie Ingall has included Hereville in her annual listing of the year’s best Jewish books for kids! There’s also a mini-review of Hereville: Perfect throughout is Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, by Barry Deutsch. It’s a very weird, confidently drawn graphic novel about an 11-year-old Orthodox girl who fervently wants to fight dragons. Mirka […] Continue reading

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Barry Interviewed On “The Enchanted Inkpot”

A new interview with me, conducted by Leah Cypess (author of the fantasy novel Mistwood), has been posted on The Enchanted Inkpot. Check it out! Continue reading

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’80s Prom Illustration

Here’s something I drew for the WAM! (Women Action & Media) Radical ’80s Prom to be held in NYC on December 3. If I lived in New York, I would TOTALLY be there. It’s 10pm-2pm at the Bowery Poetry Club; proceeds benefit ladyfolk in the media. More info here. Continue reading

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This Week’s Cartoon: “Snack Gentrification”

In Seattle there’s a bakery called Cupcake Royale, which I suppose planted the seed for this cartoon. It seems the Pacific Northwest is positively exploding with artisinal doughnuts, hamburgers, etc. Not that I’m complaining, really. The trend of gourmet “lowbrow” food just strikes me as an interesting cultural phenomenon. It’s similar to the hipster embrace […] Continue reading

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Hereville is the perfect Chanukah gift!

It’s also the perfect Chanukkah, Hanukkah, Hanuka, or Channuka gift! Chanukah begins the night of December 1 (this Wednesday), and continues until December 9. Plenty of time to buy a copy of Hereville from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells, or your favorite local indy bookstore. Just sayin’… If you’d like to know more about Hereville, […] Continue reading

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Christian Lipski’s Many Articles About Hereville

I’ve been neglecting the Hereville blogging for the last few weeks, and I have a bunch of articles to link to! Today, I’ll link to a series of four (!) articles by Christian Lipski in The Portland Examiner. First, there’s Christian’s detailed report of the Premiereville event at Powell’s on Hawthorne. (I posted some photos […] Continue reading

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Linkspam: Fighting the Power

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Labyrs Kyrgyzstan Is an LGBT organization in Kyrgyzstan that serves the needs of the LGBTQI community in that country . They need US $7000 to set up a permanent headquarters that they cannot be harassed and evicted out of.
Since its establishment in 2004 Labrys had to change offices 5 times most often because the […]

Linkspam: Fighting the Power — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman

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Courtroom Memo Re: Bris (And Judge’s Response)

Despite what this memo implies, typically Jews celebrate the birth of girls as much as the birth of boys — although without the bris, there’s more scheduling flexibility, as I understand it. But still worth posting, especially for Kimba Woo… Continue reading

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Hereville is a “Kirkus Best Kids Book of 2010″ In Three Categories

Kirkus Reviews’ annual “Best Books for Children and Teens” has come out, and Hereville is listed as a “Best” in THREE categories — “Graphic Novel,” “Fantasy and Science Fiction,” and “Fiction With Great Girl Characters.” Within the book industry, Kirkus has a reputation for being very tough reviewers, so these listings mean a lot. Congratulations […] Continue reading

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This Week’s Cartoon: “Takin’ One For the Team”

Little-noticed last week amidst the hubbub surrounding airport security machines was the torpedoing of the Paycheck Fairness Act at the hands of Senate Republicans.  The fact that it took me some effort to find out the specifics of the bill shows you just how little it’s being talked about. To put it briefly, it actually […] Continue reading

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