“He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually...
This is the cover I wanted to run with. Ah well.
Inside publishing jokes are just the best.
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Adorable.
At the Brooklyn Book Festival: “The Sex Panel: Taboo in Pictures,” moderated Heidi MacDonald, featuring Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets), Leela Corman, Molly Crabapple, and Bob Fingerman.
Leela Corman, author of Unterzakhn, at the Brooklyn Book Festival!
Leela Corman talks about her graphic novel, Unterzakhn!
from Unterzakhn by Leela Corman
Leela Corman was at the New York Tenement Museum on Thursday to talk about her new graphic novel Unterzakhn. Schocken editor Altie Karper (who penned the hilarious captions for our Yiddish cards, which the museum printed out and distributed at the event!) introduced Leela, who went on to give a lively talk about her creative process.
Leela Corman doing on-the-spot drawings in copies of Unterzakhn last night at Word Bookstore in Brooklyn for some lucky fans! What, you thought she was just gonna sign her NAME or something? Pfft.
(Psst - don’t forget to practice your Yiddish!)
Unterzakhn Yiddish Word of the Day: Meydele!
That concludes our Unterzakhn Guide to Yiddish! Now that the book is (finally!) on sale, we hope you’ll consider picking it up. Wouldn’t want all your shiny new Yiddish vocab words to go to waste, eh?
Unterzakhn Yiddish Word of the Day: Shikse!
Unterzakhn Yiddish Word of the Day: Shayne Punim!
Unterzakhn Yiddish Word of the Day: Tuchus!
Unterzakhn Yiddish Word of the Day: Pritze!