SHOFAR

SHOFAR
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 29, N°2

My article "The 'Outsider': Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament" was first published in the winter 2011 issue of the American journal of Jewish studies Shofar, by Purdue University Press in Indiana. The editor of the issue was Derek Parker Royal.

The book Visualizing Jewish Narrative, published in June 2016 by Bloomsbury and also edited by Derek Parker Royal, contains a reprint of all the papers from the original Shofar issue, plus many other articles on the same themes (comics and Jewishness). My article is therefore also reprinted in it.

"The 'Outsider'" studies the radically different effects obtained through the references to the Old Testament in Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and in Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (a multi-authored collection of underground comix parodying the Old Testament, published by Knockabout Comics, and six stories of which were written by Gaiman).

The Shofar issue's page on Project MUSE:

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/22697

The Visualizing Jewish Narrative book's page on its publisher's website:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/visualizing-jewish-narrative-9781474248808/

The article is also available in an abridged version on the website of artist-interviewer Mia Funk, who published it online alongside her interview with Neil Gaiman:

https://www.creativeprocess.info/creative-works-1b/2016/7/9/the-outsider-neil-gaiman-and-the-old-testament?rq=neilgaiman