JT Wald­man is a com­ic book cre­ator and edu­ca­tor. In addi­tion to Megillat Esther, he is best known for his col­lab­o­ra­tion with Har­vey Pekar, Not the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me (Hill + Wang, 2012). He has con­tributed to sev­er­al edit­ed vol­umes that detail the inter­sec­tion of com­ic books and Judaism, includ­ing From Krakow to Kryp­ton (JPS, 2008), The Jew­ish Graph­ic Nov­el: Crit­i­cal Approach­es (Rut­gers, 2010), and Colo­nial Comics (Ful­crum, 2014). In 2015, Con­gre­ga­tion Kene­seth Israel in Elkins Park, PA com­mis­sioned Wald­man to cre­ate a site-spe­cif­ic com­ic book that decod­ed the mon­u­men­tal stained glass win­dows in their syn­a­gogue. JT con­ducts lec­tures and work­shops around the coun­try on top­ics rang­ing from com­ic books and reli­gion to visu­al nar­ra­tives and midrash. His cur­rent project, America’s Cho­sen Spir­it, is an alter­na­tive his­to­ry web­com­ic and trans­me­dia project about untold bour­bon back­sto­ries. He lives in Philadelphia.