By Sam Pollak

This session our community has had the amazing opportunity to learn from Jordan B. Gorfinkle, the Jewish Cartoonist. Gorf, as he calls himself, was the editor of the Batman franchise for the better part of a decade, and he currently writes Everything’s Relative, a weekly cartoon that appears in newspapers around the country and incorporates Jewish values in its content.

Gorf has come to GUCI to help us conclude our session studying Jewish Character and Characters. We have been learning about middot (Jewish virtues) as represented by figures from the Hebrew Bible and throughout Jewish history, so the idea of creating cartoons of people representing Jewish values fits perfectly into our summer!

Over the course of two days, each and every one of our campers gets the chance to learn how to script a cartoon, how to sketch the pictures and write the dialogue, and how to ink their creations so they look like professional cartoons. Everyone will take home an original one- or four-panel cartoon that incorporates one of our middot (virtues) from the summer. Gorf is also hard at work curating the best of the artwork in to the first ever GUCI comic book!

For more information on Gorf, see www.jewishcartoon.com.