The Placebo Man

by Tomer Hanuka

New Yorker Magazine artist Tomer Hanuka collects his best comics work from the last five years, including stories previously published in Bipolar, the award winning comics series co-created with his twin brother. This collection of nine short stories deals with identity, memory, and destiny. From the hollow existence of twenty-something urbanites in Brooklyn and their magical parallel lives, to a dense psychological collage of a split-second lifetime, the stories touch a raw nerve we never knew we had.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hauntingly strange - reverberates past the telling of a story to a deeper truth - very original. I found myself thinking of The Stranger by Albert Camus while I was reading this book; not a similarity to the story, more of the feeling of estrangement I felt when I read the book. I will be looking for more of the work of Tomer Hanuka.

[Ian Carpenter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Strange, beautiful, ugly, bizarre stories that break lots of rules, cut to seemingly disconnected characters and other stories and yet it all makes a great emotional sense. Really dug it.

[Lorraine · Rating 3 out of 5]

2,5

[Vic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Messed up-

[Juju · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd been looking to read this one for a while. Really interesting to see the progression of Hanuka's artwork and storytelling. While many of these short pieces initially seem simply surreal, closer attention reveals some impressive experiments in storytelling. Elephant's Graveyard was awesome and an absolute surprise.

[Darrell · Rating 3 out of 5]

short picture stories from one of the talented twins that put out the title Bipolar