The Comics of Asaf Hanuka
Telling Particular and Universal Stories
The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories tells the story of how cartoonist Asaf Hanuka illustrates both universal and particular narratives. Through close readings of Hanuka’s entire catalogue of comics and graphic narratives, Hanuka’s work is situated within the broader story of his own experiences of being an insider (as a Jew and Israeli) and an outsider (as a Mizrahi, or Judeo-Arab) in Israeli society. By moving chronologically through Hanuka’s works, the book traces how Hanuka navigates these disparate particular identities alongside more universal concerns about how to be a present partner to his spouse and to his children.
Matt Reingold is the author of Gender and Sexuality in Israeli Graphic Novels: Contested Masculinity and Independent Femininity (Routledge), Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis (Lexington), and Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury). He teaches at TanenbaumCHAT in Toronto.
