Duvshani & Tzaisler: Bad Butcher

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Bad Butcher

David Duvshani & Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler

Text at the top: Zisl rushes to the kitchen and starts chopping the liver wholeheartedly. Zisl grins and chops the liver. Pieces of liver fly above her head reaching from her held utensil on the right side and into a bowl on the left side of the frame.

David Duvshani and Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler, Bad Butcher, Comic, 25 frames, 10 x 10cm each, Ink on paper, 2021

Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler and David Duvshani have worked as a couple since 2018. They published a weekly comic column, Apocalyptic Predictions, in Haaretz newspaper in Israel (2019-2020).

David is an artist working with comics, painting, and print. He is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and his work has been exhibited internationally. He contributes to Tohu magazine, where he has a podcast of interviews with artists and a comic column The Travels of Reb Mendelovitch, an experimental comic in the form of a scroll. His comic book, Crusades, was published in France in 2019.

Fermentto is a fiction writer. She has been heralded by the Israeli press as a “brave new voice” (Haaretz). Her debut novel, Safari, was published in Israel in 2011, and became a bestseller. Her second novel, By the Orange Orchard, won the Ministry of Culture Award for Young Authors. She holds a Ph.D in Jewish-American and Yiddish literature from UC San Diego. They live together in Tel-Aviv.