Especially during wartime, when the helicopters with wounded soldiers were landing right near our building. My parents were both doctors, and as a child we lived in a neighborhood that was in the hospital area for all the doctors and nurses and their families to live in, so I was exposed to things that maybe other kids don’t see. Maybe the fact I grew up in a hospital didn’t help, either. “This country of mine doesn’t let you ignore the facts of death too much, and from a very early age. “First of all, where I come from,” she continued. “I do see the connection, though, to my personal history. “Personally, I was always attracted to the subject, as much as I had/have a strong preference to black humor,” the Israeli cartoonist told Comic Riffs. Last month, “The Property” won an Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album at San Diego’s Comic-Con International - even as in the Mideast, the Tel Aviv-based Modan faced her homeland’s current spectre of death. After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost. Savvy and insightful, elegant and subtle, Rutu Modans second full-length graphic novel is a triumph of storytelling and fine lines. “What is more mysterious and dramatic than death?” Modan told The Post’s Comic Riffs. The Property is a work that will inspire, fascinate, and delight readers and critics alike. Last year, Modan published “The Property” (Drawn and Quarterly), a beautiful graphic novel that mines emotional humor from the competing motivations and agendas and secrets of people seeking something in Poland - a half-century after the Holocaust upended the lives of the elder generations. EVEN IN Rutu Modan’s comedic work, there is the spectre of death.
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