Dimona Comix Group

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The Dimona Comix Group (often short Dimona Comix ) is a collective of Israeli comic book authors .

Emergence

Dimona Comix was founded in 2002 by students from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Tel Aviv Center for Design Studies (VITAL) who were looking for a way to publish their own comics . In addition to Guy Morad, Michal Baruch, Merav Shaul, Yifat Cohen and Amitai Sandy , the German author Jan Feindt was one of the founding members, but he left the group after the first volume was published in early 2003.

The authors decided to publish in English and chose Dimona as the Israeli name, which is easy to pronounce even for non-Israelis. The Dimona anthologies primarily address the alienation and fears of young Israelis in the current Middle East conflict . The stories in Dimona 1 contain surrealistic and Kafkaesque elements, such as the transformation into and from animals, to characterize a culture with everyday life getting out of hand.

In 2005 Dimona Comix produced the anthology Dimona 3 with Shirley! A Sex Comedy an independent comic band. Noa Abarbanel joined as an author , with an illustration by Sandy. The book tells the story of a typical Israeli girl: school, compulsory military service in the Israeli army , travel, university. The explicit portrayal of their sexual relationships caused difficulties with foreign publishers who viewed the band as pornographic .

comics

  • Dimona - an Israeli Comix Anthology 1 , 2003
  • Dimona - an Israeli Comix Anthology 2 , 2003
  • Dimona - an Israeli Comix Anthology 3 , 2005
  • Shirley! A Sex Comedy , 2005

literature

  • Comical reality. Dimona Comix, a group of graphic artists . Curve Magazine, July 1, 2006
  • The Comics-Journal 267, pp. 16ff

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Talking with Amitai Sandy about Israeli comics and the Dimona Comix Group . Comicbook Resources, April 28, 2005
  2. ↑ To uncensored alternative to mainstream comics ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Haaretz, August 26, 2003  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  3. ↑ Nicholas Mirzoeff : Watching Babylon: the war in Iraq and global visual culture . Routledge, 2005, p. 113ff
  4. ↑ Thinking outside the (dialogue) box . Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2005