Terry LaBan of Wyncote (Cheltenham Township) was featured today in an article by the Jewish Exponent titled “Wyncote Author Tells Jewish Stories For An International Audience“.

LaBan, a cartoonist, has published comic book series, internationally syndicated strips, and “Mendel the Mess-Up,” a children’s graphic novel that tells the story of a boy who works to save his Eastern European village.

“[The story] is really kind of an amalgamation of the archetypes that live in my head — I like to say the shtetl that lives in my head,” he told the Exponent. “I can only speak for myself, but I don’t really know much about the life that my ancestors lived in Eastern Europe. There are fragments of things my relatives told me, but they came over very early in the last century. My notion of what life was like is really based on pop culture.”

From 2001 to 2015, he and his wife published “Edge City”, a syndicated strip about a modern suburban Jewish family. LaBan’s other publications include “Love’s Not a Three Dollar Fare: More Stories from Unsupervised Existence” (1995) and “Dreaming: Beyond the Shore of Night” (1998).

For more on LaBan, you can visit his website.

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Photo: Terry LaBan courtesy of the Jewish Exponent