Jewish Comics Through Time

As I read the third section of Ari Kaplan’s From Krakow to Krypton, I noticed that artists felt more comfortable creating openly-Jewish characters. Will Eisner’s A Contract With God was probably the first graphic novel to have Jewish characters, with several comics such as Xmen coming before it. I believe this is because there was more acceptance of Judaism in America by the 70s and that Jews didn’t feel they had to hide their identity to fit in with society.
In addition to Eisner, Art Spiegelman’s Maus revolves around not just Jewish characters but a distinctly Jewish event-the Holocaust. This comfort in creating Jewish characters continued into the ‘80s. Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series portrays several Jewish themes such as a Kabbalistic notion of the Angel of Death being female, a man asking for time to recite the Shema before his death, and a moral man being rewarded by the Angel in the afterlife.
Image comics, created in 1991, offered a female superhero, GoGirl. She was created by Trina Robbins, who was instrumental in the Underground Comix move. Robbins makes a point of having Lindsay Goldman (aka GoGirl) a regular girl who, like Robbins, just happens to be Jewish.
I believe that comic creators during the Bronze Age were not afraid of revealing their own Jewish identity as well as creating Jewish characters. While the characters seem to be made distinctly Jewish in the ‘70s, they are made Jewish almost coincidentily by the ‘90s. This suggests that the acceptance and integration of Judaism in American society has become vastly different than it was in the Golden Age of the ‘30s and ‘40s.