Jobnik!
A Comics, Israel, Sequential Art book. Revisiting my first exposure to Libicki's comics.
Miriam Libicki, an American Jewish girl from a religious home, enlists in the Israeli Army one summer against everyone's better judgment. Many qualities seem to make her unsuited for IDF life: her Hebrew isn't great, she is shy and passive, and she has a tendency to fall in love with anything that moves. If that weren't enough, the Al Aqsa uprising, a.k.a the second Palestinian Intifada, erupts a few weeks after she is stationed as a secretary in a remote Negev base. Will Miriam survive threats of terrorism, the rough IDF culture, and not least, her horrible taste in men?
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 152 pages
- ISBN: 9780978427702 / 0
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Revisiting my first exposure to Libicki's comics. The strength here is the artwork: roundish, chunky bodies with big eyes. Very soothing to look at.Neat portrayal of the mundane aspects of military life, while terrible shit is happening. She clearly feels like she's helping if only by doing her small part.Content notes for young men being obnoxious, weird hetero ideas about virginity.... I guess I expected more from this book than what it actually was. Jobnik is a derogatory slang term used by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for non combat soldiers like desk clerks. At 18 an American Jewish girl decides to join the IDF. I expected more of a story about a girl struggling with the change, but it ends up just being more of...
