Just published: here’s a solid new historical comics-essay about the history of Soviet Jewish migration by my good friend and contemporary Miriam Libicki, who’s been an underrecognized torchbearer of the modern comics essay form since about 2005, and whose work has been a big influence on my own approach over the past decade!

Miriam is currently working on an opus entitled Glasnost Kids, which will be out next year from Fantagraphics— don’t miss it! In the meantime, pick up her essay collection Toward A Hot Jew, her Nib comic “Who Gets Called An Unfit Mother?”, and her new essay about the Israeli nuclear missile program in The Nib’s new “Secrets” issue.