Rutu Modan
How Graphic Novels Grew in Israel
When Israelis Rutu Modan and Yirmi Pinkus started publishing graphic novels, their decision to work in English was seen as snobbish and unpatriotic — even anti-Zionist.
Israeli Graphic Novelist Rutu Modan Draws On Her Family's Secret History
Rutu Modan’s new graphic novel traces a woman’s journey to Poland with her grandmother to reclaim family property from before the Holocaust.
Rutu Modan's Secrets and Revelations
On its face, Rutu Modan’s ‘The Property’ is about a Jewish woman returning to Poland for the first time since the Holocaust. But there’s much more beneath the surface.
A Graphic Account of the Israeli Countryside
The past year has seen a bumper crop of Jewish-themed graphic novels, with subjects ranging from the recent history of the Middle East (Joe Sacco’s “Footnotes in Gaza” ) to the ancient mythology of the Middle East (R. Crumb’s “Genesis” ) to the poets of the Beat Generation (Harvey Pekar and Ed Piskor’s “The Beats” ).