What would happen if Indiana Jones was an Israeli woman? And what if her hunt for the Ark of the Covenant could embolden Israeli settlers and upend the lives of Palestinians? Eisner Award winner Rutu ...

If there's always a fine line between "hilarious" and "offensive," Israeli comics artist Rutu Modan is one heck of a tightrope walker. This is a woman who managed to edit the Israeli edition of Mad ...

In Israel — a country almost entirely bereft of homegrown graphic novels — Rutu Modan is a one-woman industry. Her new book, “The Property,” published in both Hebrew and English, follows Mica, a young ...

This thrilling graphic novel about the hunt for a sacred relic in the divided lands of Israel and Palestine will be read for decades to come In Tunnels, Rutu Modan’s long-awaited new graphic novel, a ...

The search for a sacred biblical artifact was the real-life spark for Rutu Modan's latest graphic novel, Tunnels. A witty, dramatic adventure story about an archeological dig in the West Bank, it ...

In graphic novelist Rutu Modan’s most recent work “Tunnels,” published on Nov. 2 by Drawn & Quarterly, archaeologist Nili is hardly the heroic and striking protagonist Indiana Jones is in “Raiders of ...

Rutu Modan, an Israeli cartoonist and illustrator, was casting around for an idea for a graphic novel when she happened to see the documentary No. 17. David Ofek's 2003 film is about a suicide attack ...

ED. NOTE: Last month, Comic Riffs launched an occasional feature, dubbed “SHELFIES,” in which we pull a favorite graphic novel or other comic off our personal shelves that’s ready for a fresh close-up ...

This thrilling graphic novel about the hunt for a sacred relic in the divided lands of Israel and Palestine will be read for decades to come From caricatures in the 18th-century to modern graphic ...

Israeli graphic novelist Rutu Modan's deceptively clear and simple line work — she can conjure a face in two dots and a single, expressive pen stroke — is a deliberate artistic choice. Narratively, ...

I didn’t tell anyone in my family that I’d use them as characters in my new book, The Property. The character of Regina, who travels from Israel to Poland with her granddaughter Mica, draws on a ...

In Rutu Modan's second full-length graphic novel, Mica Segal, a young Israeli woman, travels to Warsaw with her paternal grandmother, Regina, to help her reclaim the apartment building her family was ...