Eli Valley
Eli Valley | |
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| File:Eli Valley Photo.jpg Valley in March 2023 | |
| Born | Eli Valley 1970 (age 55–56) Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Education | Cornell University |
| Occupations | Cartoonist and author |
Eli Valley is an American cartoonist and author. He is best known for his political cartoons, which often feature prominent politicians, businesspeople, and media personalities.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Valley was born in Rhode Island, and grew up in Troy, New York, and New Jersey. His father was a Conservative rabbi, while his mother was secular. Valley has one sister. He attended Jewish day school until 8th grade, and received an undergraduate degree in English from Cornell University.[1][2][3] While at Cornell, Valley contributed cartoons to The Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper.[3]
Career
[edit | edit source]Valley published a travel book, The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Crakow, and Budapest (1999, Jason Aronson).[4]
Valley was artist-in-residence at The Forward from 2011 to 2013.[6] In October 2013, after Valley satirized Abraham Foxman as an antisemite for his antagonism toward anti-Zionist Jews,[7] Foxman pressured the newspaper to stop publishing Valley's work.[3][8][9]
In 2017, Valley published Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel (2017, OR Books),[10] a collection of comics and essays exploring American Jewish identity and the relationship of American Jews with Israel.[11] In The Los Angeles Review of Books, Nathan Goldman wrote, "The book is not only a towering artistic achievement and a disturbing chronicle of American Jewry’s relationship to Israel over the last 10 years, but also a battle cry for a resurgent American Jewish left in a harrowing time of far-right power in the United States and Israel."
Writing in Vulture, Abraham Riesman has referred to Valley's work as "expressionist [and] woodcut-esque."[3]
Valley contributed illustrations to The Chapo Guide to Revolution.[12] Writing in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Will Tomer said the book resembled "an old-school MAD Magazine, thanks in part to the stomach-turning illustrations of Eli Valley."[13]
Valley's "Schlonged!," about Donald Trump's obsession with size, was selected for The Best American Comics 2017.[14]
In March 2019, Valley drew a cartoon satirizing Meghan McCain's appropriation of Jewish identity[15][16] after McCain wept during an appearance on The View while castigating Ilhan Omar as an antisemite for her remarks about Israel.[17][18][19] McCain called the cartoon "one of the most anti-semitic things I've ever seen,"[20] which caused controversy[21] and discussion about Christian Zionist allegations of antisemitism.[22][23]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Non-fiction
[edit | edit source]- Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide & Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Crakow & Budapest (1999)
Collections
[edit | edit source]- Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel (2017, OR Books)
References
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External links
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- Personal website
- Twitter page
- Jewish Currents cartoon archives (2017-present)
- cartoon archives from The Forward
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American male writers
- Alternative cartoonists
- American editorial cartoonists
- American political artists
- Cornell University alumni
- Jewish American activists for Palestinian solidarity
- American activists for Palestinian solidarity
- Jewish American anti-Zionists
- Jewish American editorial cartoonists
- Jewish American comics artists
- Jewish American comics writers
- American illustrators
- Jewish American illustrators
- American satirical comics writers
- American satirical comics artists
- Jewish socialists
- Members of the Democratic Socialists of America from Rhode Island
- Jews from Rhode Island