Exit Wounds

Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds, published by Actes Sud in 2007, is a standalone graphic novel that follows a young Israeli man searching for his missing father after a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Modan's warm, understated art and nuanced storytelling weave a quiet mystery through the fractured landscape of contemporary family and national grief. The book received a 2008 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel, cementing Modan's reputation as a leading voice in Israeli comics. Its intimate, human-scale drama makes it a landmark work of 21st-century graphic storytelling.