The Rules was created with the cooperation of many people on social media whom I reached out to. Some contributed their stories of immigration and the challenges they faced upon arrival. Others helped with the visual research and sent in photos of rooms, kitchens, furniture, clothes, hairstyles, and everything about who they were in the 1990s.
Photographs courtesy of: Guido Mar-Haim, Magi Margalit Otsri, Yinon Ptahia, Yuliya Yanuka, the Kantor family, Alona Rubinstein-Tabacaru, AD Rovner.
And of course, there were those who helped me with the ‘casting’ of the characters, sending me photos of children and dogs. The parents of the selected children also photographed them.
Every child was photographed dozens of times so that I could create a single illustration for the book…
Photographs by: Michal and Zehavit Ben-Hillel, Dogs: Inbal Lever’s Fabio, Ronni Tal’s Lucky, Anat Propper-Goldenberg’s Apollo, Maya Avisar’s Salsa – who was chosen to portray “Davka” The dog.
This stage took a lot of work: I drew many characters before I decided who would be right for the role, and, after choosing the right child, I further adjusted the illustration of the child…
The book contains 12 pages of comics. I am not a comics artist, so I consulted an expert – the illustrator and comics artist Omer Hoffman.
Still, the book is not a graphic novel. It’s a regular book, with short chapters and seven points of view.
Nevertheless, I wanted to interact a little with the genre, so each chapter opens with an illustration framed in a divided rectangle, with the chapter title appearing at the bottom.
The book depicts the real world, but I love fantasy; the world of Russian fairy tales that I grew up reading, was inserted only into the illustrations…
לרכישת הספר “החוקים”: הוצאת כנרת, אתר עברית, צומת ספרים, הסיפור הבא