Forget about your image of an illustrator’s workshop. Here there is no light table no dozens of paintbrushes pencils pens and sketch pads strewn over the tabletop. It’s a new generation and the only tools of the trade in Avraham (Albert) Zmora’s studio are a desk some electronic pencils and a state-of-the-art computer.

“Everything has improved; only the mess remains” Zmora smiles.

In the Israeli world of illustration Avraham Zmora was king and although the public never knew his name his creations became national icons. He was head of the team that created the Osem Bamba Baby and the Carlo Cat (from Tnuva’s pudding line) yet at the peak of his success in the world of marketing and promotions he left it all to draw pictures of tzaddikim.

It’s been two years since Zmora 43 bade goodbye to the world of advertising. Today his head is crowned with a black suede yarmulke his face framed with a trim beard and the animated poses of redhead and diapered Baby Bamba on his screen replaced with the characters for a series of illustrated comic books on the lives of gedolei Yisrael.