“Never Forget, Never Forgive”, The Graphic Novel
“Widower Samurai Oda struggles raising his spirited teenage daughter Ryoan and his seven-year-old boy Kaimen amidst a bloody clan war. When the enemy lord’s daughters are captured and paraded through town, Ryoan sets off to liberate them, an act that forces Oda, the children and their clan to face old lies that divide and older truths that may ultimately unite.”
NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE were the common calls Rami Efal, the author and illustrator who is also a descendent of Holocaust survivors, heard while growing up in Israel. The infant author was puzzled: “Whom will one forgive if not one’s enemies?”
Told in the tradition of classic epics and tragedies such as Antigone, Throne of Blood, and Lone Wolf and Cub, this tale invites one to an inner journey of breaking through the barriers within one’s own self to uncover the vast heart we share together.
NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE – The Collected Edition
ISBN 978-0-578-05227-4
182 pages, 6″x9″ perfect bound trade paperback
Includes never before seen art and material.
Available for mail order through LULU.COM
I want to share this work with everyone, so I offer the book in a special limited-time introductory price. Part of the revenues from the sales will be donated to different reconcilation and relief organizations around the planet.
Read it for free serialized on
Follow the process of the making of the graphic novel, with behind the scenes sketches, character design and commentary from the author about the origin and unfolding of the creative process.
Never Forget, Never Forgive is self-published and its success depends solely on your generosity and word-of-mouth. If you enjoy reading it online or printed, please consider recommending it to friends and family. Thank you!
The OneFace Project: Haiti
During the month of January 2010, I offered an original ink painting for anyone sending me a receipt of suggested donation of $50 towards any charity helping out in Haiti’s earthquake aftermath. The response was heartwarming from the US, Israel, Germany and the UK, and we gathered together more than $1,200 in donations to the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Partners in Health and others.
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Never Forget, Never Forgive (was Seven Lies) at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum
San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum will feature a few pages of Seven Lies in this show, Aug 8th thru Dec 6th 2009
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ACT-I-VATE celebrates Free Comic Book Day at Bergen Street Comics on May 2nd, 2009
This Saturday is Free-Comic-Book-Day. Several artists and I will be on site at Bergen Street Comics in Brooklyn throughout the day. The evening event begins at 6pm. At 7pm there will be a presentation of different works on the act-i-vate.com website as well a live experimental narrative exquisite corpse. Original artwork will be on display including a few panels from a graphic novel I currently work on. I will be there from 7-10pm so feel free to drop by, pick up a free comic and say hi.
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Art for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, February 2009
Art for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Magazine, February 2009
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Art for American Public Media: Speaking of Faith (January 2009)
Inner Lives of Children
“Psychiatrist Robert Coles has spent his career exploring the inner lives of children. He says children are witnesses to the fullness of our humanity; they are keenly attuned to the darkness as well as the light of life; and they can teach us about living honestly, searchingly and courageously if we let them.”
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/robert-coles/
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Three Delivery, Storyboards (BBC/Nicktoons, 2008)
Three Delivery, storyboards and animatics at Animation Collective Inc. and FatKat Animation, for Nicktoons, BBC and YTV, 2008
Links:
Watch the 1st episode online on TurboNick
www.threedelivery.com
Trademark ™ and Copyright © 2006-2008 The Larry Schwarz Company, All Rights Reserved.
Show Opening:
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Speed Racer: The Next Generation, Storyboards (Lionsgate, Nicktoons, 2008)
Storyboards and animatics for the first season for Animation Collective Inc.
Speed Racer: The Next Generation official website
© 2008 Speed Racer enterprises, Inc. All Right Reserved. Speed Racer: the Next Generation is a trademark of Speed Racer Enterprises, Inc.
No Formula (Desperado Publishing, October 2009)
No Formula includes “Dinner Date #9” and “Rosa” Written by Steven Goldman and illustrated by myself, originally appeared in “Styx Taxi: As Above So Below” from FWD Books. No Formula is an anthology of comics from the website Chemistry Set.
“Rosa“
Available Through Amazon
Interview at Comicon.com
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Dream Train, (SMITHMAG.NET 2008)
Webcomic, Story by Tim Hall, illustrated by myself, featured in SMITHMAG.NET
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Artists in New York / Ideafried Studio / Taipei
Featured in Artist in New York, published by Ideafried Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
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Christmas Machine, Group Exhibition, Galerie MFK, Berlin
Participating painting
December 2007
www.mfk-galerie.com
Galerie MFK
Oranienburger Str. 41
10117 Berlin Mitte
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Kappa Mikey, Storyboards, Nickelodeon (2006-7)
Storyboards at Animation Collective Inc. for Nickelodeon
Kappa Mikey Official Website
Kappa Mikey DVD at Amazon
Trademark ™ and Copyright © 2005-2008 Kanonen & Bestreichen Inc, All Rights Reserved.
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Ellen’s Acres, Cartoon Network, Storyboards, 2007
Storyboards and animatics at Animation Collective Inc. for Cartoon Network
Ellen’s Acres Official Website
Trademark ™ and Copyright © 2006 Kanonen & Bestreichen Inc, All Rights Reserved.
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Fly Away, Music Video Montage
Dr. Bill Ramos of the Philippines used my artwork to create a montage with Corrinne May’s song ‘Fly Away,’ for his workshop Transitions in the subject of life transitions and end-of-life.
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“Drawn to Jazz,” Solo Exhibition, T-Lounge, Brooklyn, NY
‘Drawn to Jazz’ is a collection of drawing and painting from 2005 to 2007, done in Tokyo, Tel Aviv and New York City, all at live music performances. 50% of sales were forwarded to Children International.
March 15 – April 11th, 2007
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