The Golem Complex: Art, My Mother, and Me

Why does a person draw? To fill the void left by a mother who died too young and too quickly? That may be part of it. But not only. For Joann Sfar, author of The Rabbi's Cat series and many other celebrated graphic works, drawing is as much a religion as it is a human science – an activity whereby the artist both observes the world and confronts it. But what drawing also makes possible is to leave the world for a while and invent it anew.

From the death of his mother to how to get published, Joann Sfar plumbs the depths of his life with the sincerity, humor, and passion for which he is widely known.