Author of The English GI: A World War II Graphic Memoir. 🖊️✨ Aficionado of graphic novels, memoirs, & comics. 📚🎨 Exploring history through art and comics

Golders Green, London, UK
Joined January 2017
Fabulous review by @DavidMarkHerman of The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir in today's Jewish Chronicle. All the more poignant as my grandfather was a huge admirer and supporter of David's late father, the painter, Joseph Herman. @JewishChron. tinyurl.com/4cyf5u3a
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This week saw the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. 🖋️ I spoke with 25-year-old artist Jack Lewis about turning his family’s lived history into a graphic memoir with @graffeg_books . Read the full interview here 👇 jsandlergraphicmemoir.substa…
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This week on the blog: We sit down with one of Yorkshire’s most important graphic creators, Darryl Cunningham! 🎨📖 Known for his comic documentaries on Musk, Putin, and global power structures, Darryl has a brand-new work of pure fiction out with Avery Hill. (Link in comment)
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I had 24 hours in NYC and went straight to Red Hook to interview @deanhaspiel & @DougLatino about REAL LIFE COMIX — Only in New York! 🏙️✨ 52 stories, 69 contributors, and the ultimate love letter to the city. Read the full interview on GraphicMEMOIRBlog 👇
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Brooklyn fine artist Joseph D’Esposito debuts with The Outsider (@fantagraphics )! 🎨 A graphic biography of comic pioneer Bernie Krigstein—D’Esposito’s former high school teacher and fellow fine painter.
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Brooklyn fine artist Joseph D’Esposito debuts with The Outsider (@fantagraphics )! 🎨 A graphic biography of comic pioneer Bernie Krigstein—D’Esposito’s former high school teacher and fellow fine painter.
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I spoke with Eliza Fricker @_MissingTheMark about her visceral drawing process, reframing neurodivergence, and her new graphic memoir Could Try Harder. @JKPAutism @littlebrown (link in comments)
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This week on GraphicMEMOIRBlog, I’m interviewing Teresa Robertson on her new graphic memoir, TWINS (@Menschpublishi1 ) 🎨📖 Full disclosure: having helped edit & bring her original zines into this finished edition, it’s a book I’m deeply proud of.
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How do you write a 300-page graphic memoir while working as a full-time hospitalist? 📱🩺 I talked with Dr. Grace Farris (@gracefarris) about her unique iPad workflow, editorial insights from W. W. Norton, and making comics on shift. Read the story: jsandlergraphicmemoir.substa…
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NEW EVENT: October 7 in Graphic Novels 🗓️ Mon 13 Oct | 6:30pm | 💻 Online | Free Cartoonist Asaf Hanuka @RealistComics and writer, actor Omri Rose and Jonathan Sandler @jsandler1978 discuss turning testimony into graphic narrative. Register now: shorturl.at/MppyM
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Super image and it was featured in Tom Levy's graphic memoir The Boomer Archaeologist: Graphic Memoir of Tribes, Identity and the Holy Land where hw jsandlergraphicmemoir.substa…
One of my favourite images of The Cauldron of the Middle East. Two titans who came to trust each other. 32 years ago
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One of my favourite images of The Cauldron of the Middle East. Two titans who came to trust each other. 32 years ago
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Blood of the Virgin was a masterpiece, so when I was in San Diego I was happy to make the 100-mile drive north to Los Feliz, LA, to meet Sammy Harkham. We discussed his family roots in Budapest and Baghdad, what fiction is Read it here: jsandlergraphicmemoir.substa…
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Murder School NEARLY makes The Observer’s Graphic Novel Of The Month. observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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