Eli Valley

Eli Valley
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Born	1970 Rhode Island
Education	Cornell University
Occupation(s)	Cartoonist and author

Eli Valley is an American cartoonist and author. He is best known for his political cartoons, which often feature prominent politicians, businesspeople, and media personalities.

Early life

Valley was born in Rhode Island, and grew up Troy, New York, and New Jersey. His father was a Conservative rabbi, while his mother was secular. Valley has one sister. He attended Jewish day school until 8th grade, and received an undergraduate degree in English from Cornell University. While at Cornell, Valley contributed cartoons to the university's newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun.

Work

Valley was artist-in-residence at The Forward from 2011-2013. In October 2013, after Valley satirized Abraham Foxman as an antisemite for his antagonism toward anti-Zionist Jews, Foxman pressured the newspaper to stop publishing Valley’s work.

Writing in Vulture, Abraham Riesman has referred to Valley's work as "expressionist [and] woodcut-esque."

Valley contributed illustrations to The Chapo Guide to Revolution. Writing in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Will Tomer said the book resembled "an old-school MAD Magazine, thanks in part to the stomach-turning illustrations of Eli Valley."

Valley's "Schlonged!," about Donald Trump's obsession with size, was selected for The Best American Comics 2017.

Discussing Valley's book about European Jewish cities on the news website Jewish Journal, Rabbi John Rosove wrote: "The chronicler of Central European Jewish history, Eli Valley, blames the current Jewish leadership of Prague for its lack of organized, serious and sustained outreach to those of Jewish heritage living in the city, and he despairs of Prague’s Jewish future."

Bibliography

Non-fiction

• Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide & Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Crakow & Budapest (1999)

Collections

• Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel (2017, OR Books)