Tomer Hanuka (born 1974) is an award-winning Israeli illustrator and cartoonist.
At age twenty-two, after completing three years of mandatory Israeli Army service, Hanuka moved to New York City. Following his graduation from the School of Visual Arts, he quickly became a regular contributor to many national magazines. His clients include Time Magazine, The New Yorker, Spin, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, MTV, and Saatchi & Saatchi. He is the winner of multiple medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers as well as American Illustration and Print magazine.
Tomer co-creates Bipolar with his identical twin brother Asaf for Alternative Comics. Bipolar is an experimental comic book series for which Tomer was nominated for the Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz awards. In 2006, Tomer published The Placebo Man (Alternative Comics), which compiles much of his work from Bipolar. He currently lives in New York City.
A print interview with Tomer Hanuka and his twin brother Asaf appeared in The Comics Interpreter #5 with a cover by Tomer.
The following is a list of projects Hanuka has created covers for.
BOOKS: The Gigolo Murder (Penguin) The Kiss Murder (Penguin) Hammer (W.W Norton) Marquis De Sade (Penguin) Alive in Necropolis (Riverhead Books) Butterfield 8 (Random House) Appointment is Samara (Random House). The Diving Pool (Random House) Darker Mask (Tor Books) The Possession of Mr Cave (Random House) Fat White Vampire Blues (Ballantine Books) Work Book (2007), Everyone's Burning (Villard ) Shadow Of Doubt,Crime Files. (Scholastic) Body of Evidence, Crime Files. (Scholastic) Fallen Angels (Scholastic) Glory Field (Scholastic) The Beast (Scholastic) Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic) The Cubicle Survival Guide (Villard) Kiss Kiss Switch Bitch My Uncle Oswald (Quality Paperback Book Club)
MAGAZINES: BusinessWeek, Wage Wars. The Progressive, recruiting on spring break. The Progressive, the man behind the curtain. Stanford Medical, planet earth is dying. New York Times, summer movies. Mother Jones, nuclear Iraq. New York Times Sunday Magazine, terrorist? New York Times Sunday Magazine, escaping north Korea. New York Times, transportation. New York Times, technology. Kulture Spiegel (Germany), George Clooney is super humane. Deliver, future eagle. Deliver, direct mail. URB, Wu Tang Clan. Promo, everything is going green.
MUSIC: Aesop Rock, Bazooka tooth album cover (music).
COMICS: Wolverine Chop Shop (Marvel Comics); Un-Men, 13 covers for the series (D.C Comics); Midnight Mass Vol I, 12 covers for the series; Midnight Mass vol. 2, 8 covers for the series; Meathaus #3 (Meathaus press); Bipolar #1,2,4 (Alternative Comics); The Big Question (Top Shelf Comics); New Thing: Identity; New Suit Focus, 16 cover for the series (D.C. Comics); The Placebo Man (Alternative Comics).