Dan Allon

Dan Allon was born in 1982 in Netanya

Dan Allon was born in Netanya in 1982 and grew up there. He studied art in high school.

After high school he served in the military police at the Ktzi'ot military prison. He later held the rank of sergeant major there.

In 2004 he began publishing comics in zines and on a blog. He studied visual communication at Shenkar, and from 2012 to 2014 he took a continuing program at HaMidrasha, Faculty of the Arts.

He created graphic novels, including Hysterical Behavior in 2010, based on stories by Etgar Keret and Shoham Smit. His books were shown at the Fumetto festival in Lucerne and the Angoulême festival. His art often deals with his own life, humor, artistic action and power, as in his project The Dictator about his army years.

He has shown solo exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at the Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan in 2012. With musician Shani Broner he formed the duo Satla Land, which performs in galleries and museums. His works are held by the Cartoonmuseum Basel, the Israeli Cartoon Museum and the Bank Leumi collection.