Rutu Modan is an illus­tra­tor, comics artist, and asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at the Beza­lel Acad­e­my of Art & Design in Jerusalem. After pub­lish­ing sev­er­al com­ic strips in the Israeli media, Modan co-found­ed the Actus Comics group. In 2008 her book Exit Wounds won the Eis­ner Award. Her 2013 graph­ic nov­el The Prop­er­ty won the Eis­ner Award for Best Graph­ic Nov­el, the Spe­cial Jury Prize in the Inter­na­tion­al Comics Fes­ti­val in Angouleme, France, and the first prize for best book of the year in Luc­ca Comics & Games Fes­ti­val, Italy. Modan’s comics and children’s books have been trans­lat­ed into 15 lan­guages. In 2013 she cofound­ed an inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ing house spe­cial­is­ing in comics for young children.