Rabbi Harvey Rides Again by Steve Sheinkin

We’d hire people to write history textbooks, and they’d send in their writing, and it was my job to check facts and make little edits to clarify the text. Meanwhile, I started working for an educational publishing company, just for the money. In 2006, after literally hundreds of rejections, my first Rabbi Harvey graphic novel was finally published. I wrote short stories, screenplays, and worked on a comic called The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey. We were sure it was going to be a huge hit actually we ended up deep in debt.Īfter that I moved to Brooklyn and decided to find some way to make a living as a writer. We wrote some screenplays, and in 1995 made our own feature film, a comedy called A More Perfect Union (filing pictured below), about four young guys who decide to secede from the Union and declare their rented house to be an independent nation. We lived like paupers in a house with a hole in the floor where bugs crawled in. Then, when my brother Ari graduated from college a few years later, we decided to move to Austin, Texas, and make movies together. The highlight of those years was a summer I spent in Central America, where I worked on a documentary on the streets of Nicaragua.Īfter college I moved to Washington, D.C., and worked for an environmental group called the National Audubon Society. I went to Syracuse University and studied communications and international relations.

Probably my all-time favorite was a book called Mutiny on the Bounty, a novel based on the true story of a famous mutiny aboard a British ship in the late 1700s. As a kid my favorite books were action stories and outdoor adventures: sea stories, searches for buried treasure, sharks eating people… that kind of thing.

I was born in Brooklyn, NY, and my family lived in Mississippi and Colorado before moving back to New York and settling in the suburbs north of New York City.

Rabbi Harvey Rides Again by Steve Sheinkin