Rutu Modan Wins Cartooning Prize

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Rutu Modan, one of Israel’s most famous illustrators and comic book artists, won this year’s Eisner award for Best Graphic Album–New for her graphic novel Exit Wounds. The book tells the story of Koby Franco, a young man searching for his father, last seen at the site of a suicide bombing. The Eisner Awards are the highest honors in the comic book industry and are awarded annually at the Comic-Con convention.
Rutu Modan’s webpage has more works and information.
In addition, Modan’s work is currently running serially in the New York Times Magazine with the title “The Murder of the Terminal Patient.” Previous works that appeared in the New York Times can be viewed here.

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