Alex Schumacher is pitching his middle-grade graphic novel The Ill-Effects of Pickled Herring, as Raina Telgemeier meets Jeff Kinney from a Jewish author-illustrator It follows the tumultuous year-long preparation for introverted 12-year-old Micah Gadsky and his outgoing sister Alana's joint B'nai Mitzvah (Bar and Bat mitzvah), as they struggle to make sense of family changes[...]
