DER EYDES
On a cold March evening in Montreal, I was walking home from a childcare gig in an unfamiliar part of town when I stumbled across a Little Free Library containing an old, discarded first-edition book of early literary criticism on the great Franz Kafka. Cracking the book open, I was amazed to discover that this was not only an extraordinary book, but a portal to the life of an extraordinary man - the book's previous owner, Dr Chaim Fischel Shatan, the (relatively unknown) founder of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosis.
DER EYDES (Yiddish: The Witness) is my ongoing serialized comic about the treasure I found and the treasures it led to. It is one part detective novel and one part biography, with generous heaps of autofiction and family history mixed in. This work has been supported by a Microgrant for Cultural & Creative Exploration from the Museum of Jewish Montreal, a Research & Creation Grant from the Canada Council of the Arts, and a MacDowell Fellowship (2023).
In Fall 2025, the first three issues (of a planned six) will be reissued and available through Sheer Spite Press. Sign up to my newsletter for updates on distribution and where to buy (link at bottom of page)!
