Exit Wounds is the North American graphic novel debut from one of Israel’s best-known cartoonists, Rutu Modan. She has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times, Young Artist of the Year by the Israel Ministry of Culture and is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.

Exit Wounds received praise from comic book artist Joe Sacco, who called it “a profound, richly textured, humane, and unsentimental look at societal malaise and human relationships and that uneasy place where they sometimes intersect.” Writing in The New York Times, Douglas Wolk compared her style to that of Herge’s Tintin books, “her characters’ body language and facial expressions, rendered in the gestural ‘clear line’ style of Hergé’s Tintin books, are so precisely observed, they practically tell the story by themselves”.

Time magazine’s Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2007, ranking it at #8. It also won the 2008 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel.

Wolk, Douglas. Holiday Books – Comics, The New York Times, 2 December 2007.
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