The Realist: Plug and Play

by Asaf Hanuka, Asaf Hanuka (Illustrator)

Overview

The Realist: Plug and Play continues the journey of Eisner-Award winning, husband, father, and ordinary Israeli citizen Asaf Hanuka (The Divine) as he plumbs the depths of human existence with humor and melancholy, imagination, and quiet desperation. This new volume of the series brings the mix of pathos and politics that makes Hanuka a modern master of cartooning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613986240
Publisher:	Archaia
Publication date:	04/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	39 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

Editorial Reviews

★ 08/21/2017
In this follow-up to Hanuka’s Eisner Award–winning webcomic collection, The Realist, he once again delivers a powerful series of strips that brings together family, fatherhood, conflict, and crisis with all of the warmth, humor, tragedy, and profundity of the best cartoonists. Topics vary, including dealing with the challenges of being a comics creator, worrying about his finances, and helping his children get to a shelter during a missile attack. Hanuka shows readers his humanity by detailing his feelings of doubt and inadequacy as well as his hopefulness and affection for the human condition. A recurring motif has him depicting himself as mere human covering for something mechanical—removing his face to reveal a light socket or cassette player, or showing himself to be a robot—but it’s clear these allusions are a mask for vulnerable humanity in all its glory. Hanuka’s art spins from the heartfelt to the grotesque as needed, with a rich, fluid line. This second collection is a more than worthy successor to the first. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly