Fugue
Adi Kaplan and Shahar Carmel
2021
Graphic novella
A wide-ranging graphic novel, with 136 color drawings and 51 pencil drawings by Shira Borer. The book deals with escape, or its normative cousin—the journey. The one that begins yesterday and ends tomorrow, goes off in a plane and returns in a boat, strives to conquer the world, and returns home quietly.
- Copies: 1000
- Pages: 416
- Type of binding: hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 24.5X17.2
- Reproductions: Adi Kaplan & Shahar Carmel
- Printing: A.R. Printing LTD
- Binding: A.R. Printing LTD
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Lev Afor
- Place of publication: Israel
- Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts
Lev Afor—Adi Kaplan, born in Ein Hahoresh in 1967 and Shahar Carmel, born in Tel Aviv in 1958, are graduates of the Kalisher Academy of Painting. They have been living and working together in Tel Aviv since 1994. They are engaged in writing and painting, creating comic books and graphic novels, short films, sketches, pictorial and musical performances and shows that combine all of these. Over the last 14 years, they have focused on writing, drawing and publishing graphic novels under the name “Lev Afor” [lit. Gray Heart]. The books deal with their personal experiences and immediate environment, and aim to show a more general picture of life in Tel Aviv, Israel, today.