Joann Sfar was awarded the prestigious Jury Prize at Angouleme for the first volume of The Rabbi's Cat. He has drawn more than one hundred comic books for children and adults, including Little Vampire Goes to School (a New York Times best seller) and Little Vampire Does Kung Fu! (nominated for an Eisner Award). He lives in Paris with his wife, two children, and the model for The Rabbi's Cat.
Alexis Siegel has over fifteen years' experience in various fields of translation, and his interest in adapting graphic novels was sparked by one of Sfar's works--the whimsical children's story Little Vampire Goes to School, a New York Times bestseller first published by Simon & Schuster in 2003 and reissued in Spring 2008 by First Second Books. In addition to The Rabbi's Cat, several works from Sfar's prolific production have kept him both delighted and busy, among them Klezmer: Tales of the Wild East , Vampire Loves, and The Professor's Daughter . He has also translated Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda, by Jean-Philippe Stassen, and, into French, Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese.
"Sfar's words and pictures mingle in a dance both sacred and
skeptical, perfectly graceful and clumsily human. I'm so grateful
that his brilliance has finally been brought to America."
--Craig Thompson, author of Blankets "He draws faster than his
shadow. He comes up with new stories as if he were drinking a glass
of water. He talks more than anyone I've ever known. He's extremely
talented, extremely funny, extremely smart. I guess this is the
description of a genius. And I don't say such things because he's
my friend. Joann Sfar is not a rabbi, but he describes better than
anyone the religious dilemma with a tenderness, intelligence, and
humor. The Rabbi's Cat is a book that everybody should read."
--Marjane Satrapi, author of Perspolis "[The Rabbi's Cat] is rich
in historic and cultural detail and filled with great stories."
--The Washington Post "As fanciful as Mark Haddon's The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a whole lot shorter than The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and a good deal more Jewish
than Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Joann Sfar's graphic novel is
hilarious, poignant, and wise. And now that I'm done reading it for
the first time, I'm going to read it again."
--Adam Langer, author of Crossing California "An affecting,
fraught, and--yes--sometimes hilarious tour de force about the
complexities of living faithfully in a godless world."
--The Boston Globe
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