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Pizzeria Kamikaze
By Etgar Keret and Asaf Hanuka. 100 pages, $14.95.
May 2006; ISBN: 1-891867-90-3
2007 Eisner Award Nominee
Best U.S. Edition of International Material
"I think she cried at my funeral. It's not like I'm conceited or anything, but I'm pretty sure. Sometimes I can actually picture her talking about me to some guy she feels close to. Talking about me dying. About how they lowered me into the grave, kinda shrivelled up and pitiful, like an old chocolate bar. About how we never really got a chance. And afterward the guy would stick it to her, and it would be all about making her feel better."
Pizzeria Kamikaze is about a guy with a broken heart who committed suicide only to find himself at Pizza Kamikaze, a regular day job in a world where everyone died before. Now, it's about passing time.
Asaf Hanuka studied at the French art institution Emile Cohl. After majoring in illustration, he started working as an illustrator for various publications. He has collaborated on graphic novels with French writer Didier Daeninckx on 'Carton Jaune!' and 'Hors Limits', and Israeli writer Etgar Keret on 'Streets of rage'. He is also working with French writer Roger Martin on a western graphic novel. Asaf has been working for daily newspapers and magazines. Among them Time, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Source, Wall St. Journal, Forbes, and others.
Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. He is undoubtedly the most popular writer among Israeli youth, who see him as expressing their world, and his unique style has been widely
imitated. Keret received the Prime Minister's Prize for literature and the Ministry of Culture Cinema Prize. His books in translation have received critical acclaim around the world, and Kneller's Happy Campers is included in French Fnac list of the 200 books of the decade. Keret lectures at Tel Aviv University Film School. His movie, Skin Deep, won the Israeli Oscar as well as first prize at several international film festivals. Over 40 short films based on his stories have been produced, and one received the 1998 American MTV Prize for the best animated film.
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