Michel Kichka
Autor/a de Second Generation: The Things I Didn't Tell My Father
Obres de Michel Kichka
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Kichka, Michel
- Data de naixement
- 1954-08-15
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Israel
Belgium (birth) - Lloc de naixement
- Belgium
- Llocs de residència
- Belgium
Jerusalem, Israel - Educació
- Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Professions
- political cartoonist
illustrator
comic book artist
graphic novelist - Relacions
- Kichka, Henri (father)
- Organitzacions
- Cartooning for Peace
Israel Cartoonists Guild - Premis i honors
- Chevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres (2011)
Dosh Award (2008)
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier, 2011)
Prix Francine et Antoine Bernheim (2019) - Biografia breu
- Michel Kichka was born in Liège, Belgium. His parents were Lucia (Świerczyński) and Henri Kichka, Polish-born Holocaust survivors. He immigrated to Israel in 1974 and studied art at the Bezalel Academy, where he became a teacher and one of Israel's leading comic book artists and political cartoonists. Kichka produces comics in French and Hebrew for various media outlets including Le Monde and TV5. In 2006, he joined the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) movement Cartooning for Peace. He received the Israeli Dosh Cartoonist Award in 2008. In 2011, he was awarded the prestigious Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier) from the French Ministry of Culture. Kichka serves as head of the Israel Cartoonists Guild.
Membres
Ressenyes
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
Llistes
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 29
- Popularitat
- #460,290
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
- Llengües
- 4
Michel's childhood was defined in part by the Holocaust. He spent hours looking through his father's books on the Shoah searching for pictures of family members and fearing he would see his teenage father in the photos. His father saw Michel's good grades and achievements as a way to get back at Hitler, and Michel and his siblings felt a constant pressure to be the perfect family. Years later while talking to his sister, he thinks that it was "as if we weren't entitled to teenage angst because Hitler robbed him of his."
Michel moves to Israel, graduates from art school, marries, and has children of his own, but the Holocaust still shadows his life and family. His brother-in-law commits suicide and three months later his brother does too. The shock of losing his brother sends Michel into a tailspin, and a floodgate is opened in his father's memories. Henri writes his memoirs, Une adolescence perdue dans la nuit des camps and begins teaching about the Holocaust and leading groups to Auschwitz. Michel wonders, "I sometimes feel that his testimony has replaced his memory... His death march has been going on for 67 years. He walks on while his deceased loved ones pile up behind him."… (més)