Originally published in Jewcy on December 8, 2008. Colors by Craig Leinoff, center painting by Marc Chagall. If you’re not familiar with the subject of the comic — the ongoing human and animal rights abuses at the largest kosher slaughterhouse in America — you can read up on the most recent events in award-winning coverage here, or in articles in The New York Times, The Forward, or The Iowa Independent. Click the Jewcy link for a larger, easier to read version.
Great stuff! I was wondering where I could find hyperbole married to sophistry, and now I know!
Comment by malaclypse the tertiary — December 26, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Very funny. And the art is wonderful. But don’t expect lots of appreciation and success. You push the envelope too much and the usual suspects will say you provide cover for anti-Semitism. I hope you never change, but for the sake of your career you might want to consider it.
Comment by A.J. — February 2, 2009 @ 12:28 am
Yeah, sure. Cover for anti-semitism. As if criticism of certain criminal, immoral, corrupt, depraved, lying, cheating, genocidal, violent, deceptive, usurous behavior by Jews is motivated not by hatred of the acts themseles, but by an irrational and innate hatred for Jews. The Chagall style in this particular strip is quite nice, and the juxtapositon of Chagall and Postville is an unusual twist.
Comment by Coleman Nidrescheim — March 21, 2009 @ 9:33 am
“Great stuff! I was wondering where I could find hyperbole married to sophistry, and now I know!”
Nice that you counter his actual, sourced examples with a fantasy world where slaughterhouses are righteous and holy things. Keep that head in the sand, keep people being exploited and harmed, it’s the nature of the willfully ignorant.
Comment by chao — January 24, 2010 @ 5:17 pm