Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv

Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv

Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv

Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv

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Overview

A nonfiction graphic novel about the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in 2003 — from documentary film makers Jack Baxter and Josh Faudem.

There's a rule at Mike's Place: never, ever talk politics or religion. At this blues bar on the Tel Aviv beachfront, an international cast of characters mingles with the locals, and everyone is welcome to grab a beer and forget the conflict outside. At least, that's the story Jack and Joshua want to tell in their documentary.

But less than a month after they begin filming, Mike's Place is the target of a deadly suicide bombing. Jack, Joshua, and the Mike's Place family survive the only way they know how-by keeping the camera rolling.

Written by filmmakers Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem and illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Koren Shadmi, Mike's Place chronicles the true story of an infamous terrorist attack in painstaking detail. Rarely has the slow build to tragedy, and the rebirth that follows, been captured with such a compassionate and unflinching eye.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596438576
Publisher: First Second
Publication date: 06/09/2015
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jack Baxter is a filmmaker and freelance journalist from New York City. He and his wife Fran Strauss-Baxter co-produced the award-winning film "Blues by the Beach."

Joshua Faudem is an American-Israeli documentary filmmaker who has made many notable documentaries and television shows in Israel and Europe and is the director of the award-winning documentary "Blues by the Beach."

Koren Shadmi's graphic novels have been published in France, Italy, Spain, Israel, and the US. His work was selected for the Best American Comics 2009 anthology edited by Charles Burns and his illustrations have won several awards at the Society of Illustrators.

The graphic novel Mike's Place is their first collaboration.

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