The seven-panel plane for the album Kurt Ueberschaer and the Golem from 2021, from the series of comic books about commissioner Ueberschaer by Krzysztof Masiewicz (scripts) and Janusz Pawlak (illustrations).
As the title suggests, the central plot of the comic book, otherwise set in a whole network of references to popular culture of the first decades of the 20th century, is the existence of a mysterious human-like figure with enormous power. It is a theme taken from the legends of Central European Jews, which functioned already in the Middle Ages and petrified in the 17th century: about a golem (Hebrew for "formless mass"), that is, an animated "artificial man".
Today, the best-known literary version of the legend is Gustav Meyrick's novel from 1915, which was filmed twice in the inter-war period (in 1920. - a film directed by Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen; in 1937 - a film by Julien Duvivier). As recalled by the authors of the entry Golem in Polski słownik judaiustyczny (Polish Judaic dictionary). As Bogdan Kos and Rafał Żebrowski remind us, "In modern Jewish literature the best known reference to the Golem motif is the dramatic poem by H. Leiwik, based on the legend of Jehuda ben Becalel Loew, Golem (written in 1917-1920, published in 1921), which has become a classic of world literature [...]".
The presented plane is the first in Masiewicz and Pawlak's comic book to show the motif of Abraham Rinbaum, the rabbi of Wrocław. The rabbi - as the reader of the comic learns later in the scene - had a piece of paper stolen from a secret room in his house, which contained the word that revives the Golem (in versions of the legend about the Golem, the paper contained the Name of God).
The main protagonist of the comic book (and of the series), Commissioner Ueberschaer, and the rabbi can be seen on the board; in the last frames they enter a hidden space. The rabbi's robe is a tallit, although the stripes should go along the shorter side and only near it. (By the way, dressing a rabbi in such circumstances in a tallit - which is worn only for prayers - is also a certain simplification).
Janusz Pawlak's drawing is very detailed, the outline is filled in with hatching (shading) or blackening of large parts of the frame (darkness). The sheet contains no lettering, only onomatopoeias - in frame 5: KLIK, in frame 7: SZSZSZ. In the layer under the ink, a layer of working drawing (printout) is visible - pale blue lines. At the edges of the card - extending beyond the edges of the frames - thick lines from paintings. On the black of the background in frames 1, 6 and 7 working cross-marks are visible against the light (5 in total).