This is the page for the live chat with JT Waldman, artist of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, the final graphic novel by autobiographical comics legend Harvey Pekar. The chat was recorded live from 6:30-8:00pm eastern time on Wednesday, 5 December 2012.
A. David Lewis, Ph.D., has worked in the field of Comics Studies for the past twenty years and has lectured nationally on the subjects of Graphic Medicine, Graphic Religion, and literary theory pertaining to comics. He serves as a college educator in the Greater Boston area and writes the ongoing adventures of Kismet, Man of Fate, the world's first Muslim superhero. Dr. Lewis is the co-editor on several volumes of comics research and author of the Eisner Award-nominated American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife. In addition to a tenure on the Comics Studies Society Executive Board, he is also the President of the nonprofit Comics for Youth Refugees Incorporated Collective (CYRIC) and a founding member of Sacred and Sequential. Dr. Lewis can be found on Twitter as @adlewis or through his website www.captionbox.net.