illusration sunday :: globes

asaf :: for the last couple of years I have been illustrating a weekly column in israeli newspaper Globes, an economy related publication.
the interesting part is that I get the assignment sunday morning and finish it in about 2-3 hours including everything. unlike american ADs, in israel it's rare to be asked to send a sketch. so this regular gig turned out to be the closest thing I have to a sketchbook - I can do whatever I want as long as it relates to the text somehow, and since I have to do it fast I go with my natural tendency - characters.

No Fare, No well :: Playboy fiction

tomer :: in this short story published in Playboy, celebrated writer Barry Hannah describes a life dedicated to a mission: getting wasted. as everything around him vanishes and everyone he loves eventually leaves, he looks back at what he lost and what is left. it's that sort of math people do at a certain age, but he is not apologetic about any of it... "I attached a nobility to my hard drinking. It brought more fools into focus and illuminated my friends into angels."
attempting to convey a moment of self reflection in what is a busy and social surroundings, the man in the center of the composition is staring at the bottom of an an empty whisky glass. "It is a good thing I did not know I’d hit bottom but I can now recall with clarity when it was."