Mother :: and her sprawling presence

On Wednesday July 1st a new limited edition print would go up on thanuka.com
“Mother” is 13″ x 19″ signed archival Giclee print, has an edition of 50, is $85 and very red.

update: print sold out.

Bots, Blasts and Boys :: about Automated Weapons and the Men who Love Them

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tomer :: two recent New Yorker pieces with killer robots. above- for an article titled Shoot! about gunsmith Jerry Baber and the remote-controlled armed machines he has created in partnership with two robotics companies. Bellow- an image for the Terminator: Salvation movie review.

Sometimes it Takes a Village :: or rather a Forest :: of Pencils

tomer :: a 2nd cover in a series of novels by Mehmet Murat Somer, staring a Turkish Audrey Hepburn deadringer transvestite detective. in this chapter she is crossing over into the ritzy and morally anorectic upper echelon of Istanbul's social elite to solve a murder of a local gigolo. art directed by Roseanne Serra.



...and done!

wine labels :: trilogy

asaf :: this is the third and last image in a series of labels for some young punks winery featuring the sexy adventures of trixie and tessa love. chin chin!

Morning Routine :: With Avedon In The American West

tomer :: right after the first coffee, when the day is still packed with potential this daily exercise is about messing up. drawn from a brilliant collection of photos by Richard Avedon called In the American West.

gangsters and oscars

asaf :: waltz with bashir didn't win the oscar. there was great expectation and hope, but no golden statue. however, ari folman's film made a long and impressive way from a small studio in north tel-aviv winning many prizes and gaining critical acclaim world wide.

life goes on, and work is piling on the table corner. here is a series of images for the milken institute about economical gangsters. the text examines the different aspects of criminal behavior in the new economy. the art direction went for a film noir aesthetic evoking old gangsters films.


there is a bit of economic gangster in each of us (capone as accountant)

sewer traffic smuggling cellphones

bribe


the evil twins - corruption and violence

also, check out my new website at asafhanuka.com as well as hilit's even newer website at hilitshefer.com !

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. to read the entire Dirties saga follow this ->


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.

revolver magazine :: jonathan and sonny

asaf :: Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn and Sonny Moore, lead singer of From First To Last.

will blog for food :: promo magazine

asaf :: promo's december issue is about how the recession is affecting online promotions. here is the illustration made for the cover from sketch to final. the image was suggested by the ad, as well as the text on the sandwich board. you know the drill.

Comics to Film :: Elephant Graveyard

tomer :: towards the end of the last century I've started working on a fictionalized biography in comics form of Johnny Weissmuller, one of the early actors who played Tarzan on the silver screen. I've watched those black and white movies as a child and the most memorable detail was the one communicated by my dad after the screenings-- the actor's later years, which where spent in an insane asylum believing himself to be Tarzan, walking the halls and ripping the air with his trademark Tarzan scream. An invitation from Jim Higgins to create a story on the theme of identity for a comics anthology he was editing (called New Thing) prompt the whole project into gear and a slim fourteen pager found it's way into print. the story attempts to imagine Weissmuller's last day, reminiscing on his time as Tarzan and as a (problematic) Hollywood player without the ability to tell apart fiction from reality and past from present. Now, almost a decade later, the comics was picked up by filmmaker Avi Belkin who created a short film based on it. the film is currently playing the festival circuit. as you can see bellow the art in the comics leaves much to be desired to put it mildly, but it was a chance to look at some obligatory comics to film moments and a few other production shots.

inspiration

is everywhere.

asaf :: this one was for an article about how ground breaking ideas are like virus popping in a few persons heads simultaneously, and so the classic perception of one-in-a-million-genius might be wrong. it was done for a newspaper in israel called "calcalist".