Pretty Cool People Interviews - Rutu Modan

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Rutu Modan didn't even know such a thing as comics existed when she started sketching out stories and characters during her childhood in the dry-lands of central Israel.

In this Pretty Cool People Interview, she introduces us to her first full-length graphic novel, Exit Wounds, which follows the consequences of a fateful meeting between Koby Franco, a twenty-something cab driver and a young female soldier called Numi, who approaches him with some disturbing news.

Defining a genre which might be described as 'casual carnage', Modan approaches the constant threat of mass violence suffered by many urban Israelis, with a dosage of irony which may be construed as flippant, but which poignantly illustrates how death and devastation have become just another humbrum part of daily life in this corner of the world.

Resonating the naive simplicity of Herge's legendary oeuvre, she applies her jaded (but nonetheless charming) tone and pioneering visual framework to communicate rich, multi-layered messages which are at once grotesque, bizarre and true.

Watch Goody Two Shoes - an animated short by Rutu Modan and Batia Kolton, a SubmarineChannel exclusive:
http://mmbase.submarinechannel.com/video/index.jsp?video=35935

Pretty Cool Crew: Interview: Remco Vlaanderen, Camera & Sound: Niels de Roos, Editing: Geert van de Wetering & Paul de Heer

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[natjaschon]

Some critics say her album « Exit Wounds » concentrates on small, universal family issues, albeit sparked by the bombing of a train station and the identity of an unnamed victim. I think this analysis is somewhat misleading...

Read the review (remove spaces) : leblogdelamirabelle . net /notes-de-lecture-bd-graphic-n­ovel-reviews/anglophonegraphic­novels/underground-in-japan-an­d-israel/

[amelie3007]

@ge1org1e : 'the killing moon' & 'fade to grey' by nouvelle vague. both cover versions :)

[surnamematt]

emily loizeau serch for you on youtube, i think the song is L'autre Bout Du Monde, then later on the music changes and its a band called Nouvelle vague, i beleive the song is a cover song.

[wijsgeert]

nope... sorry...

[ge1org1e]

Cool man you dont know the tracks do you?

[moscosourquiola]

Very nice interesting interview, really congrats! Now I am curious about her work, but it is unavaible in my country!

[ge1org1e]

Her work is really nice I have never heard of her before - I really like the music aswell who is it?

[SamLawtonTV]

cool vid

[pedromauricio]

uau, really interesting. didn't know her before, and now i feel like searching for more.

thank you for your amazing interviews :)