{"id":540,"date":"2007-07-25T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T16:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:31:08","slug":"jewish-panel-at-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Panel At Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekheeb.blogspot.com\/\">Adam Wills has a &quot;geek blog&quot; for the Jewish Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From his profile: &quot;A Jewlatto who edits and writes for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. He&#8217;s been online since the mid-1980s, when he bought a 1,200-baud modem for his Commodore 64 after seeing &ldquo;War Games.&rdquo;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Adam writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For those lucky enough to be attending the sold-out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/\">ComicCon<\/a> July 26-29, be sure to check out:<\/p>\n<p>Friday, 10:30-11:30<strong><br \/>\nComics Arts Conference Session #5: Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews,    Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero&mdash;<\/strong>Superheroes were created by Jews. Is that significant, or a complete coincidence and no big deal? In a reading from his provocative new Continuum book, <em>Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics,    and the Creation of the Superhero<\/em>, longtime Spider-Man editor and author    of <em>Superman on the Couch<\/em> <strong>Danny Fingeroth<\/strong> explores the backgrounds of the young, largely Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds who created the most well-known superheroes. Fingeroth will discuss how the creators&#8217; Jewish backgrounds may have helped make superheroes the most familiar popular culture icons of all&mdash;on TV, in movies, and in electronic media, as well as in comics. <em>Room 30AB<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Wills has a &quot;geek blog&quot; for the Jewish Journal. From his profile: &quot;A Jewlatto who edits and writes for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. He&#8217;s been online since the mid-1980s, when he bought a 1,200-baud modem for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewish-journal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}