Tomer Hanuka answers King's Cell

I'm not a Stephen King devotee, so I likely would've overlooked the Entertainment Weekly excerpt of his latest novel, Cell, had I not seen that the accompanying illustrations are by Tomer Hanuka (Bipolar, Midnight Mass, DC's Focus line).

On the work blog he shares with brother Asaf, Tomer discusses the project, and posts the penciled version of the main illustration:

The opening scene unfolds in the Boston Common (a park) by an ice-cream truck. our hero, a struggling cartoonist, just sold his first Graphic novel ( ! ) and filled with optimism, stands in line to get himself an ice-cream just as the cell phone meltdown hits.

since the excerpt is spread over five pages, I've created these spots referring the story's exposition about the world being destroyed within a month -- the idea is to have a mundane street corner transitioning into a burning ruin. the destruction is broken down into five stages so the reader is experiencing a sense of time passing watching the images and reading the story. this will also play to the hero's profession (a comic book artist) by lightly quoting a famous Crumb strip called 'a short history of america'

More artwork at the link.