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The Comics of Rutu Modan - War, Love, and Secrets (Hardcover)
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The Comics of Rutu Modan - War, Love, and Secrets (Hardcover)
Series: Great Comics Artists Series
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Best known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds
and The Property, Rutu Modan's richly colored compositions invite
readers into complex Israeli society, opening up a world too often
defined only by news headlines. Her strong female protagonists
stick out in a comics scene still too dominated by men, as she
combines a mystery novelist's plotting with a memoirist's insights
into psychology and trauma. The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love,
and Secrets conducts a close reading of her work and examines her
role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel. Drawing upon
archival research, Kevin Haworth traces the history of Israeli
comics from its beginning as 1930s cheap children's stories,
through the counterculture movement of the 1970s, to the burst of
creativity that began in the 1990s and continues full force today.
Based on new interviews with Modan (b. 1966) and other comics
artists, Haworth indicates the key role of Actus Tragicus, the
collective that changed Israeli comics forever and launched her
career. Haworth shows how Modan's work grew from experimental
mini-comics to critically acclaimed graphic novels, delving into
the creative process behind Exit Wounds and The Property. He
analyzes how the recurring themes of family secrets and absence
weave through her stories, and how she adapts the famous clear line
illustration style to her morally complex tales. Though still
relatively young, Modan has produced a remarkably varied oeuvre.
Identifying influences from the United States and Europe, Haworth
illustrates how Modan's work is global in its appeal, even as it
forms a core of the thriving Israeli cultural scene.
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