Last night, Apple removed the controversial “The Third Intifada” app from its App Store, just one week after it first went online. The free app provided news about forthcoming Palestinian protests as well as pinpointing other anti-Israel articles and information on the web. Some of the activities it highlighted demanded violence against Israel.
Sarah Glidden is the remarkable cartoonist behind How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less–a book released today that documents her experiences on a Birthright Israel trip in 2007, as she grapples with history, culture shock, and the looming question of Palestine. (We previewed it here a couple of days ago.) She talked to [...]
In 2007, Sarah Glidden went on a Birthright Israel trip–a short tour of Israel offered to young Jewish Americans–to get a better understanding of a country she was deeply skeptical about. On her return, she started recounting her experiences in minicomics form. The first few self-published issues of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days [...]
Sometime in the late ’80s, master hacker Kevin Phenicle, a.k.a. “Boingthump,” went underground. For a few years, until the law caught up with him, he drifted around the country, constantly changing his appearance, creating new identities for himself, and making money by rigging radio station call-in contests. That’s the story covered by Wizzywig, Volume 3: [...]
