Category Archives: Hereville

Here’s a preview page from “Hereville.” These preview pages can have spoilers, so don’t look if you’d rather not see! This time I’m showing one of the pages that got redrawn between the first version of Hereville, and the graphic novel. I show both versions, so you can see how they compare. (Info on buying […] Continue reading →

Here’s a preview page from “Hereville.” These preview pages can have spoilers, so don’t look if you’d rather not see!
(Info on buying Hereville is here.) Continue reading →

I’ll be appearing at APE this weekend, with lots of copies of the Hereville graphic novel to sell! If you’re in San Francisco, please come by and say hi. I’ll be at table #652, along with Jonathan Dalton. Continue reading →

Laurel at From The Mixed Up Files, a blog about books for middle schoolers, interviews Heidi Estrin, the Vice-President of the Association of Jewish Libraries, about Jewish books for kids. Laurel is a Hereville fan and gets a bit silly. :-D QUESTION: what trends do you see currently? Any good new books we should be […] Continue reading →

Here’s a preview page from “Hereville.” These preview pages can have spoilers, so don’t look if you’d rather not see!
(Info on buying Hereville is here.) Continue reading →

The Author’s Tent, a blog specializing in author interviews, was kind enough to interview me about Hereville. Amazingly, Hereville was the first graphic novel the interviewer had ever read, but that didn’t stop her from asking good question… Continue reading →

In a starred review (“A star is assigned to books of unusual merit”), Kirkus Reviews writes: Like all 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girls, ebullient Mirka must face a six-armed troll to avoid becoming his dinner and obtain a dragon-slaying sword–wait, what? This utterly ingenious graphic novel spins the darling yarn of Mirka, who finds tasks like […] Continue reading →

A brief but extremely kind write-up about “Hereville” at CultureMob.com: One look at the original story (which can be accessed at Hereville.com) reveals the creator’s influence by the late great Will Eisner, with whom he trained during his tenure at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He explores similar themes of Judaism and […] Continue reading →

Diamond is the single largest (very nearly the only) distributor serving comic book stores in the USA and Canada, so I was very pleased when Diamond Bookshelf interviewed me about Hereville. There don’t seem to be a lot of books out there devoted to troll-fighting 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girls. What was the inspiration for Hereville? […] Continue reading →

This short, from three recent graduates of the National Taiwan University of Arts, is lovely. I also like the way the little girl is depicted — she’s a bit frightened at first, but she’s not at all depicted as helpless or incapable. Continue reading →