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Streets of Rage

Today's post is dedicated to my collaboration with Asaf Hanuka, one of the best illustrators and best friends in the world, and to the first story I ever wrote for him, back when he was a teenager

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Etgar Keret
Feb 08, 2022
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Twenty-seven years ago, a soldier named Asaf Hanuka contacted me and said he was drawing a comic strip for the Israeli army’s official weekly magazine, and he wanted to adapt one of my short stories. Having recently finished my own compulsory military service, and still carrying a lot of unpleasant memories from my time as an inadequate soldier, I was s…

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