
Hanuka Tomer
New York, United States
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