I See You Well, graphic novel, markers on paper, 40 pages, Hebrew, 2023-2024
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While working on a new graphic novel, artist Dan Allon is experiencing relationships turmoil with his girlfriend and ill mother. In order to compensate, he seizes the opportunity to travel to Brazil to find his mother's lost uncle, who's found to be the one who assisted the suicide of writer Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte in 1942 in Rio de Janeiro.
This book was written and created during the artist residency "Sadeh" (field) at the National Library in Jerusalem.
Writing and drawing: Dan Allon
Editing: Rutu Modan
Graphic design: Michal Saar
Thanks: Shimon & Miryam Allon, Mariana and Leo Zanetti, Eran Inbar, Rutu Modan, Tadeusz Wolenski
The realization of this project was made possible with the funding and assistance of the National Library in Jerusalem
Handful of Memories, graphic novel, ink on paper, 104 pages, Hebrew, 2014
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In 2002, shortly after a ruthless terror attack in town, Shlomi, the youngest son of the family, mourns the passing of his beloved mother in a unique way: He decides to prove his father, a cook with very little business sense, that he could save the family restaurant by winning a reality show, with the aid of his stubborn grandmother’s recipe. On his way to fulfilling his dream, he starts working in a local brothel and falls in love with a young working girl.
This book is a part of the book store Madaf and can be found there for purchase: IG
Writing and drawing: Dan Allon
Editing: Nechama Baruch & Uri Mor
Graphic design: Avisar Goldman
Photos: Omer Faragi
Thanks: Shimon & Miryam Allon, Amiram Avrutzky, Sami Berdugo, Nimrod Rappoport, Giora Sadeh, Chef Rafi Cohen, Hilla Alpert, Nissim Krispel, Michal Korman, Avital Globerman
The printing of this book was made possible by the Israeli Lottory Fund
Cecil's Last Chance, a graphic novel, acrylic on paper, 36 page, Hebrew, 2009
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Synopsis: Cecil, a young lab technician working for a local hospital, suffers from a chronic skin disease which he was infected in as a child. He is lonely, a true outcast. When he discovers by accident that his illness can be cured by the urine of a specific old patient, he faces a moral dilemma: Is it acceptable to be cured by a daily replacement of her urine? Is it OK to have normal life again, on the expand of the old woman?
INTERVIEW FOR NRG (1): PRESS HERE.
INTERVIEW FOR NRG (2): PRESS HERE.
Photos: Avraham Cornfeld
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Plumbing issues, a graphic novel, ink on paper, 32 pages, Hebrew, 2013
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The story is presented as an autobiography in which truth and false are mixed. The main character is a failing artist, looking for a new medium to draw with. Inspired by his young cousin Lili – he gets new paint from a gay couple who are sure that he's trying to hit on them. As a revenge one of them tries to give the artist STD, and while that the artists is being accused by his uncle of ruining Lili's moral standards, creating an even bigger mess.
Story and Drawing: Dan Allon
Photo by: Shay Dashevsky
Interview for YNET: PRESS HERE (Hebrew)
Hysteric Behavior, 3 graphic novels and 3 original short stories, ink on paper, 36 pages, Hebrew, 2010
READ THE FULL STORIES, in Hebrew, HERE
Inspired by Roy Porter's book "Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and Lunatics", Allon took six different stories and turned them a self drawn anthology of "medical cases" of madness. The graphic novels are based on stories by Israeli authors Etgar Keret and Shoham Smith. The short stories are based on stories Allon heard at the waiting room of his doctor's clinic.
Stories: Etgar Keret, Shoham Smith & Dan Allon
Drawings: Dan Allon
TO READ WWB PUBLICATION: PRESS HERE
To read Haaretz newspaper interview: PRESS HERE (Hebrew)
Additional Graphic Novels
It Happened In Lichtenberg - a graphic novel based on a story by Nathalie Frank, 2017
Kzioth - an original graphic novel, 2012-2014
You're My Wish - graphic novel based on a story by Noam Naumovsky, 2010
Sabrina - graphic novel commissioned for Sabrina Magazine and Zwiscen Magazine (Warsaw)