The Realist - Asaf Hanuka

What’s to Love: Asaf Hanuka, in a very short period of time, hasbecome one of comics’ most critically acclaimed and soughtafter creators.His autobiographical webcomic, The Realist, began winning awards shortly afterits launch, including a Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators. What It Is:Acclaimed Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka’s weekly strips unfold anemotional autobiography full of humor and melancholy, wild imagination, andquiet desperation. Collected for the first time in English and includingneverbeforecollected strips, The Realist delivers both honesty and whimsy from amaster of his craft. With echoes of R. Crumb and Daniel Clowes, Hanuka movesreaders with his depictions of everyday life, commenting on everything frommarriage to technology to social activism through intimate moments of triumphand failure.