Tomer Hanuka
Encyclopedia
Tomer Hanuka is an award-winning Israeli illustrator
and cartoonist
.
At age twenty-two, after completing three years of mandatory Israeli Army service, Hanuka moved to New York City
. Following his graduation from the School of Visual Arts
, he quickly became a regular contributor to many national magazines. His clients include Time Magazine, The New Yorker
, Spin
, The New York Times
, Rolling Stone
, MTV
, and Saatchi & Saatchi
. He is the winner of multiple medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers as well as American Illustration and Print magazine.
Tomer co-creates Bipolar with his identical twin brother Asaf
for Alternative Comics
. Bipolar is an experimental comic book series for which Tomer was nominated for the Eisner
, Harvey
and Ignatz awards. In 2006, Tomer published The Placebo Man (Alternative Comics), which compiles much of his work from Bipolar. He currently lives in New York City
.
A print interview with Tomer Hanuka and his twin brother Asaf appeared in The Comics Interpreter
#5 with a cover by Tomer.
BOOKS: The Gigolo Murder (Penguin) The Kiss Murder (Penguin) Hammer (W.W Norton) Marquis De Sade (Penguin) Alive in Necropolis (Riverhead Books) Butterfield 8 (Random House) Appointment is Samara (Random House). The Diving Pool (Random House) Darker Mask (Tor Books) The Possession of Mr Cave (Random House) Fat White Vampire Blues (Ballantine Books) Work Book (2007), Everyone's Burning (Villard ) Shadow Of Doubt,Crime Files. (Scholastic) Body of Evidence, Crime Files. (Scholastic) Fallen Angels (Scholastic) Glory Field (Scholastic) The Beast (Scholastic) Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic) The Cubicle Survival Guide (Villard) Kiss Kiss Switch Bitch My Uncle Oswald (Quality Paperback Book Club)
MAGAZINES: BusinessWeek, Wage Wars. The Progressive, recruiting on spring break. The Progressive, the man behind the curtain. Stanford Medical, planet earth is dying. New York Times, summer movies. Mother Jones, nuclear Iraq. New York Times Sunday Magazine, terrorist? New York Times Sunday Magazine, escaping north Korea. New York Times, transportation. New York Times, technology. Kulture Spiegel (Germany), George Clooney is super humane. Deliver, future eagle. Deliver, direct mail. URB, Wu Tang Clan. Promo, everything is going green.
MUSIC: Aesop Rock, Bazooka tooth album cover (music).
COMICS: Wolverine Chop Shop (Marvel Comics); Un-Men, 13 covers for the series (D.C Comics); Midnight Mass Vol I, 12 covers for the series; Midnight Mass vol. 2, 8 covers for the series; Meathaus #3 (Meathaus press); Bipolar #1,2,4 (Alternative Comics); The Big Question (Top Shelf Comics); New Thing: Identity; New Suit Focus, 16 cover for the series (D.C. Comics); The Placebo Man (Alternative Comics).
Illustration
An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...
and cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
.
At age twenty-two, after completing three years of mandatory Israeli Army service, Hanuka moved to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. Following his graduation from the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
, he quickly became a regular contributor to many national magazines. His clients include Time Magazine, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Spin
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
, MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, and Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency network with 140 offices in 80 countries and over 6,500 staff. It was founded in London in 1970 but now headquartered in New York. The parent company of the agency group was known as Saatchi & Saatchi PLC from 1976 to 1994, was listed on the London...
. He is the winner of multiple medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers as well as American Illustration and Print magazine.
Tomer co-creates Bipolar with his identical twin brother Asaf
Asaf Hanuka
Asaf Hanuka is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist, notable for his collaborations with his identical twin brother Tomer and his work with Etgar Keret in both Hebrew and English....
for Alternative Comics
Alternative Comics (publisher)
Alternative Comics is a U.S. independent graphic novel and comic book publisher which operated from 1993–2007. Located in Gainesville, Florida, it is owned and operated by its founder, attorney Jeff Mason...
. Bipolar is an experimental comic book series for which Tomer was nominated for the Eisner
Eisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...
, Harvey
Harvey Award
The Harvey Awards, named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman and founded by Gary Groth, President of the publisher Fantagraphics, are given for achievement in comic books. The Harveys were created as part of a successor to the Kirby Awards which were discontinued after 1987.The Harvey Awards are...
and Ignatz awards. In 2006, Tomer published The Placebo Man (Alternative Comics), which compiles much of his work from Bipolar. He currently lives in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
A print interview with Tomer Hanuka and his twin brother Asaf appeared in The Comics Interpreter
The Comics Interpreter
The Comics Interpreter is a zine of comics criticism, published and edited by Robert Young. It focuses on alternative comics, and is characterized by interviews and reviews of greater length and detail than most comics-oriented publications, resembling the long-running Comics Journal in these...
#5 with a cover by Tomer.
Work
The following is a list of projects Hanuka has created covers for.BOOKS: The Gigolo Murder (Penguin) The Kiss Murder (Penguin) Hammer (W.W Norton) Marquis De Sade (Penguin) Alive in Necropolis (Riverhead Books) Butterfield 8 (Random House) Appointment is Samara (Random House). The Diving Pool (Random House) Darker Mask (Tor Books) The Possession of Mr Cave (Random House) Fat White Vampire Blues (Ballantine Books) Work Book (2007), Everyone's Burning (Villard ) Shadow Of Doubt,Crime Files. (Scholastic) Body of Evidence, Crime Files. (Scholastic) Fallen Angels (Scholastic) Glory Field (Scholastic) The Beast (Scholastic) Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic) The Cubicle Survival Guide (Villard) Kiss Kiss Switch Bitch My Uncle Oswald (Quality Paperback Book Club)
MAGAZINES: BusinessWeek, Wage Wars. The Progressive, recruiting on spring break. The Progressive, the man behind the curtain. Stanford Medical, planet earth is dying. New York Times, summer movies. Mother Jones, nuclear Iraq. New York Times Sunday Magazine, terrorist? New York Times Sunday Magazine, escaping north Korea. New York Times, transportation. New York Times, technology. Kulture Spiegel (Germany), George Clooney is super humane. Deliver, future eagle. Deliver, direct mail. URB, Wu Tang Clan. Promo, everything is going green.
MUSIC: Aesop Rock, Bazooka tooth album cover (music).
COMICS: Wolverine Chop Shop (Marvel Comics); Un-Men, 13 covers for the series (D.C Comics); Midnight Mass Vol I, 12 covers for the series; Midnight Mass vol. 2, 8 covers for the series; Meathaus #3 (Meathaus press); Bipolar #1,2,4 (Alternative Comics); The Big Question (Top Shelf Comics); New Thing: Identity; New Suit Focus, 16 cover for the series (D.C. Comics); The Placebo Man (Alternative Comics).