Rutu Modan

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Rutu Modan (2008)

Rutu Modan (born 1966 in Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv District ) is an Israeli cartoonist and author of graphic novels .

Life

Rutu Modan's parents worked as doctors at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan , and she grew up there and in the Tel Aviv area. She studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design until 1992 , after which she and Yirmi Pinkus edited the short-lived Israeli edition of Mad magazine . In 1995 both co-founded the artist group Actus Tragicus . Modan published her comics in various media and authored several children's books. In 2007 she wrote her first graphic novel.

Modan was nominated for the Ignatz Award in 2001. In 2006 she received a mention for Cargo at the ICOM Independent Comic Prize together with Tim Dinter , Jens Harder , Yirmi Pinkus, Guy Morad and Jan Feindt . In 2008 she received the Eisner Award for Exit wounds .

Modan lives in Tel Aviv with a husband and two children.

Works (selection)

  • Exit wounds . Drawn & Quarterly, Montréal 2007
    • Traces of blood . Ed. Moderne, Zurich, 2008
  • The legacy . From the Hebrew by Gundula Schiffer. Carlsen, Hamburg 2013
  • Ketchup for the queen . From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler . Munich: Kunstmann, 2013

Web links

Commons : Rutu Modan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marc Sobel: The Rutu Modan Interview , May 29, 2013, accessed on August 14, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Modan, Rutu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Môdān, Rûtû
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv District