Chaykin, who has described himself as “a Jew from the future,” also revels in the current secular fashion of acknowledging Jewishness—a fashion, in comic books, that is often these days more frequently indulged now that so many of the creators of the medium have been revealed as Jews.
Chaykin rejoices in this cultural advance, telling Gary Groth during an interview: “I’m no longer afraid, ashamed, or uninterested enough in my personal background to keep it out of the work. I’m no longer a Jew masquerading as a gentile through comics.”
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