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Philadelphia this past summer along with Joshua Stulman, creator
of Israeli Defense Comics. Wiesner is working with him on writ-
ing another Shaloman story for IDC.
While the new story will run at about seven or eight pages as
opposed to the 32-page stories he previously did, it will be
Wiesner’s first return to Shaloman since 2012.
“If you had asked me when I first created this comic book, ‘How
many would you do?’ I would have said, ‘I don’t know, three or four,’”
he said. “But in all these years, I came up with all these other ones.”
He’s proud that he was able to achieve his dream of creating a
Wiesner enjoys the
fact that so many
people other than
his grandchildren
still care about
his Jewish
superhero. Jewish superhero and is happy his stories still resonate.
Full collections of Shaloman comics are housed at the library
in Hebrew Union College, Ohio State University and in some
synagogue Judaica stores.
Shaloman’s biggest fans may be Wiesner’s grandchildren.
“They look forward to it when I give them each a copy when it
comes out,” he said.
But Wiesner enjoys the fact that so many people and kids other
than his grandchildren still care about his Jewish superhero.
“I hope that they get an interesting story of something I’ve created and
managed to keep within the realm of Jewish heritage,” he said. l
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