Unveiling Secret Project One... Dave Sim's Judenhass

 

 

March 1st, 2008 - Dave Sim began work on Judenhass in the winter of '05 when he realized how affected he had been by the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. He labored over it for two and a half years, determined not to release it until it was as good as he could make it.

 

Sim explains, "Glamourpuss was really just a way of keeping my hands and mind occupied while Lou Copeland, my technical director, did all of the meticulous computer paste-ups based on my photocopied approximations of what the finished pages should look like. I'm very conscious of the danger of "commercializing" the Shoah, which is the reason Judenhass isn't going to be promoted but, rather, just released in May of this year (the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel)."

 

Because Dave Sim considered S.P.A.C.E. to be "probably the least commercialized venue I know of in the comic book field", he chose to exhibit some of the Judenhass artwork here. He explains, "It's the only place the artwork will be displayed unless a Holocaust Museum or the Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed an interest."

 

With permission, we are honored to share a low resolution glimpse at this significant and very moving artwork. Staged at the back of the S.P.A.C.E. floor and placed out of direct view of convention visitors, the display was open to the public today and will also be featured tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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