The Escapist comes to life! If you've read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (which wo the Pulitzer several years ago), you will be happy to know that the fictitious comic book series around which the book revolves is actually going to be published.

It seems that Jewish oriented comics are starting to become big business - or at lease some kind of business.

As the Forward article also states - "the Magen Davids are out from underneath the Spandex costumes. Comic book legend Joe Kubert has created a graphic novel about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, various X-Men flaunt their Jewish identities and master storyteller Will Eisner has produced "Fagin the Jew."