Rogue to suck the life out of it :: this time on HBO

tomer :: Anna Paquin picked up the golden globe a few weeks back and it brought to mind this spot -- it never ran, the article was killed-- done for the New Yorker late last year for a review of Paquin's new HBO show True Blood, where she plays a vampire sympathizer waitress.

buisiness and pleasure :: sex tourism

asaf :: the article published in Poz magazine discussed the different aspect of sex tourism. one of the people interview was a european woman who talked about her experience from spending a vacation in Jamaica. in this illustration i tried to convey a bit of the paradox of the subject - for one person this temporary relationship is part of his travel pleasures while for the other its just a way to survive another day. here is the process on rewind mode -



more good news from the Waltz with Bashir front - it now got an Oscar nomination for best foreign film!
i talked with Spoiler Aler Radio about Bashir, comics and illustration. audio interview here.

also, check out david polonsky's graphic novel adaptation of Israeli director ari folman’s much acclaimed animated documentary here.

The Dirties :: the full comics

The Dirties is a short comics we've collaborated on a while back. We thought we're doing a story about twins but it ended up being about something else entirely. We wrote the story by sending tiny thumbnails back and forth and eventually Asaf penciled the whole thing and Tomer inked and colored.


this story was originally published in Meathaus SOS, an anthology packed with our favorite artists.

Waltz With Bashir wins the Golden Globe!

congrats to Ari Fulman and the Gang!
this is at least as surreal as some of the scenes in the movie...
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asaf :: here are few more backgrounds I've done for the film:






previously blogged art here.

Old Moab :: Playboy Fiction

tomer :: writer Ron Carlson creates a devastating moment at the end of Old Moab, a short story published in Playboy a few months back. the protagonist, in a chance meeting with a man at a personal threshold, becomes a witness and a facilitator. there was no way to use the final act in the drawing so i was left with an attempt at foreshadowing an event that has yet to take place.