OT (what else?): abie the agent.

[Yakov Chodosh <ync8...>]

hello folks... i'm trying to do a project on comic strip and comic book art, 
and i'm trying to find a book or library that might have a decent collection of 
"Abie The Agent" (Herschfield) strips. Can anyone clue me in?

for those who don't know, "abie" was the first comic strip of few to feature a 
jewish protagonist, and the first comic strip ever to portray an ethnic group 
in a positive way (some obvious negative ethnic strips were katzenjammer kids, 
barney google, etc.) the few examples i've seen are really good

speaking of comics, i hope everyone here has been following the exploits of Ben 
Katchor... he has three "julius knipl" collections out now, and they're all 
amazing... now he's doing a strip called "hotel and farm" that's in the english 
"forward"... everyone needs to check out this guy. start a conversation with 
henry sapoznik about ben katchor... go ahead, i dare you.

while i'm off-topic: everyone must listen to moxy fruvious, snoop doggy dogg, 
and the asylum street spankers. in that order.

-your loyal correspondent,
yakov ("klezmer band? where?") chodosh.
"You are dangerous and culturally irresponsible." -Asya Vaisman, out of context.

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