Category Archives: Hereville

Comic Geek Speak, a terrific comics-yak podcast, has posted their newest episode, which includes a lengthy interview with me! The interview with me begins at about 40 minutes into the podcast. This was a fun interview for me — just a bunch of comic book geeks getting together to discuss, well, me. Topics include fairy […] Continue reading →

The press release from Words & Pictures, a Portland radio show devoted to comics: Tomorrow morning (Thursday December 9th) from 11:30am to noon (PDT), Words & Pictures celebrates its seventh anniversary on the air by returning to its local roots. This month’s guest is up-and-coming Portland author Barry Deutsch, who’s just published his first graphic […] Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →