Yehuda Devir

Yehuda Adi Devir was born in October 1988 in Israel. He displayed a talent for drawing from a young age, with his father encouraging his early artistic endeavors. He served in the Israel Defence Forces before pursuing higher education in art. Devir earned a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2016. His graduation project, “Cinephile,” was an 11-meter mural depicting 300 scenes and characters from iconic films, parts of which were exhibited at the Leiden International Film Festival in 2017. Following graduation, he worked as a freelance illustrator, contributing to projects such as a children’s book and a music video.

In 2016, Devir, alongside his wife Maya Devir, began illustrating their daily life in a webcomic series titled “One of Those Days.” This series, characterized by its single-frame comic panels in the style of American superhero comics, quickly gained international popularity. A January 2017 comic, “My Hot Wife!,” went viral, leading to a significant increase in their social media following. The couple’s work, which is based on their real-life experiences with artistic exaggeration, resonates with a global audience, leading to millions of followers worldwide across various platforms. By 2017, Maya left her job as an art director to manage their growing online presence and merchandise.

The success of “One of Those Days” has led to several milestones for the Devirs. In 2019, they delivered a TEDx talk in Klagenfurt, Austria, and received the Most Creative Content Maker Award at the Inflow Global Summit Awards in Istanbul. The series was published as a hardcover book by Random House in November 2020, compiling cartoons from 2016 to 2019. They have since expanded their creative endeavors to include an online drawing course, “The Art of One Frame” launched in 2021, and the “XOXO” NFT collection of romantic fantasy artworks released in April 2022. Their art has also been featured in animated advertisements for Phoenix Smart, an insurance company, starting in September 2022. Yehuda and Maya Devir continue to chronicle their family life, including the births of their children, Ariel and Ethan, in their ongoing comic series.