Backgrounds add depth and there are detailed images of street life and cemetery celebrations on All Souls’ Day. Hergé) ligne claire style, which he pioneered in The Adventures of Tintin. Like Regina, Modan’s grandmother grew up in Warsaw and fled to Israel after the German occupation of Poland.Ĭharacters are drawn in a simple manner – solid colours, strong lines, minimal texture – that is often compared to Georges Remi’s (a.k.a. It demonstrates the difficult relationship that both she and her mother had with Grandma, largely due to a clash of values, and is echoed in Mica’s relationship with Regina. The series is a collection of six memoirs about Modan and her family, including her grandmother. The idea for The Property developed out of a series of illustrated stories Modan wrote for the New York Times website in the visual column, Mixed Emotions, in 2007. Her debut graphic novel, Exit Wounds, about a son searching for his estranged father after a suicide bomber enters a train station in Tel Aviv (where Modan grew up) won her the 2008 Eisner award for Best New Graphic Novel. The Property Rutu Modan Translated by Jessica Cohenĭrawn & Quarterly $24.95 cloth 232ppAfter graduating from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1992, Modan became a co-editor of the Hebrew edition of MAD magazine and was one of the founders of Actus Tragicus, a group of five Israeli comics artists that published nine books and one special comics album, Dead Herring Comics, between 19.
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