Rutu Modan of the Israeli comics collective Actus Tragicus is interviewed on Publisher’s Weekly about her upcoming graphic novel Exit Wounds, due from Drawn & Quarterly, talking about comics in Israel, influences and inspirations and how different working in a full-length piece is compared to shorter self-published comics: “I was self-publishing my comics for years, so I always limited my comics to short novellas that I could afford producing. When I got the offer to create a book for Drawn & Quarterly, I was terrified at first by the fact that I needed to write a long story, a real novel. I searched for a story for a few months, actually, before starting to write it.”
“There is a great difference between a short novella and a long one, not just in length but also in form. The short story is based on one strong idea, usually using some kind of a punch line. In a novel the main thing is creating the protagonists, and following whatever happens to them.”
Sat, May 26, 2007
Comics and cartoons, Interviews