Rutu Modan

Rutu Modan is an Israeli comics artist and illustrator, known for the graphic novels Exit Wounds and The Property.

born 1966The graphic novel Exit WoundsThe graphic novel The PropertyCo-founding Actus TragicusChildren's book illustration

Born: 1 February 1966, Tel Aviv
Occupation: comics artist, artist, writer, illustrator
Education: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Rutu Modan was born in 1966 in Tel Aviv

Rutu Modan was born in 1966 and grew up in the doctors' housing at Tel HaShomer. Her father, Prof. Baruch Modan, was a cancer researcher and director general of the Health Ministry. Her mother, Prof. Michaela Modan, was also a scientist, and her younger sister is the actress Dana Modan.

She graduated with distinction from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She then edited the Hebrew edition of MAD magazine with Yirmi Pinkus. In 1995 the two founded the comics group Actus Tragicus.

Modan illustrated many children's books, including a book by Etgar Keret. Her graphic novel Exit Wounds won an Eisner Award in 2008, and The Property, published in 2013, won another in 2014. In 2020 she published the graphic novel Minharot.

She is an associate professor of illustration at Bezalel. She lived for a time in Sheffield, England, and returned to Tel Aviv in 2009 with her husband, Ofer Bergman, and their two children. In 2024 a film of The Property was released, written by Modan with her sister Dana.