Rutu Modan

Rutu Modan (also known as Rutho Modan) is an Israeli graphic designer and illustrator. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and after graduation, created comic strips for Israel's leading daily newspapers and co-edited the Israeli edition of MAD magazine. She was a founder of ACTUS TRAGICUS Publishing House for alternative comic artists in 1995. In 1996, she published a graphic novel with Israeli author Etgar Keret, Nobody Said It Was Going To Be Fun. Modan contributes to magazines and periodicals around the world, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Le Monde, and others. Her four published graphic novels include the award-winning Exit Wounds (2007). She has been a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation since 2005.