Illustrator, cartoonist

At the age of twenty-two, Hanukkah moved to New York. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2000, 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 recipient of numerous medals of the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers, as well as the magazine American Illustration and Print.

Tomer , together with his twin brother Assaf , creates Bipolar 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 PlaceboMan (Alternative Comics), which collects most of his work from Bipolar. He currently lives in New York.

Published books:

• The Divine, 2015
• Overkill, 2011
• Meathaus S.O.S, 2008
• The Placebo Man, 2005
• Bipolar 1–5, 2000–2004

Illustrations on the cover:

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 )
• Crime Files: Shadow Of Doubt (Scholastic)
• Crime Files: Body of Evidence (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)
• Persephone Station (Saga Press)
• The Lunar Chronicles (2020 edition)

Magazines:

• “Wage Wars,” BusinessWeek
• “Recruiting on Spring Break,” The Progressive
• “The Man Behind the Curtain,” The Progressive
• “Planet Earth is Dying,” Stanford Medical
• “Summer Movies,” The New York Times
• “Nuclear Iraq,” Mother Jones
• “Terrorist?”, New York Times Sunday Magazine
• “Escaping North Korea,” New York Times Sunday Magazine
• “Transportation,” New York Times
• “Technology,” New York Times
• “George Clooney is Super Humane,” Kulture Spiegel (Germany)
• “Future Eagle,” Deliver
• “Direct Mail,” Deliver
• “Wu Tang Clan,” URB
• “Everything is Going Green,” Promo

Music:

• Aesop Rock
• Jack White (alternative cover art for Blunderbuss tour singles)
• Bazooka Tooth album cover
• Father (You’re Not Boring Anymore) album cover

Comics:

• Wolverine Chop Shop (Marvel Comics)
• Un-Men (DC Comics) — 13 covers for the series
• Midnight Mass vol. I — 12 covers for the series
• Midnight Mass vol. II — 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)

Awards:

• 2016 Society of Publication Designers — Gold Medal for “The Return of Han Solo,” art-directed by Keir Novesky for Entertainment Weekly
• 2016 International Manga Award — Gold Medal for The Divine
• 2015 Society of Publication Designers — Gold Medal for “The Man who Discovered Mars,” art-directed by Keir Novesky for Entertainment Weekly
• 2010 Society of Illustrators — Silver Medal for MGMT album review, art-directed by Steven Charny for Rolling Stone
• 2010 Society of Publication Designers — Silver Medal for Lost Boy,” art-directed by Matthew Bates for Backpacker Magazine
• 2009 Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Movie — Waltz with Bashir (Hanuka was part of the art team)
• 2008 British Design Museum Award — Penguin Deluxe classic edition book covers (Hanuka’s contribution to the series was the Marquis De Sade cover)
• 2006 Society of Illustrators — Gold Medal
• 2004 Harvey Award nomination for Best Cover Artist
• 2004 Society of Illustrators — Gold Medal
• 2004 Society of Publication Designers — Silver Medal
• 2003 Eisner Award nomination for Best Short Story
• 2002 Ignatz Award nomination for Promising New Talent
• 2000 Society of Illustrators — Gold and Silver Medals

Personal website: http://thanuka.com/

Reference: Wikipedia, 2010