The rest of her whole family was murdered in the Holocaust, and Mrs. Regina Segal is returning to Warsaw, the place of her birth, from Israel where she has lived for more than 70 years. The cover depicts an old Warsaw cemetery where the aged monuments are festooned with candles. In that sense it is an everyday story, a story of people just trying to make it through.Here is another graphic novel meant for adults, not children. The moments of levity, the mystery, the romance, the secrets, it all rolls along at a pretty quick pace and the characters simply persevere. The sentiments of loss resonate the most with the reader, but are muted, which is perhaps why The Property isn’t that gripping. This resignation to the present is as close as we get to an epiphany. “How many times can you start life all over again?” asks Regina. The underlying sense of loss that pervades the story is subtle despite the gravity of these individuals’ experiences. There is no dramatic climax, only the occasional outburst of frustration. The narrative follows a pretty straightforward script that has a lot going on, and yet at times feels like there isn’t enough happening because the story never really peaks. Backgrounds add depth and there are detailed images of street life and cemetery celebrations on All Souls’ Day. Hergé) ligne claire style, which he pioneered in The Adventures of Tintin. Like Regina, Modan’s grandmother grew up in Warsaw and fled to Israel after the German occupation of Poland.Ĭharacters are drawn in a simple manner – solid colours, strong lines, minimal texture – that is often compared to Georges Remi’s (a.k.a. It demonstrates the difficult relationship that both she and her mother had with Grandma, largely due to a clash of values, and is echoed in Mica’s relationship with Regina. The series is a collection of six memoirs about Modan and her family, including her grandmother. The idea for The Property developed out of a series of illustrated stories Modan wrote for the New York Times website in the visual column, Mixed Emotions, in 2007. Her debut graphic novel, Exit Wounds, about a son searching for his estranged father after a suicide bomber enters a train station in Tel Aviv (where Modan grew up) won her the 2008 Eisner award for Best New Graphic Novel. The Property Rutu Modan Translated by Jessica Cohenĭrawn & Quarterly $24.95 cloth 232ppAfter graduating from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1992, Modan became a co-editor of the Hebrew edition of MAD magazine and was one of the founders of Actus Tragicus, a group of five Israeli comics artists that published nine books and one special comics album, Dead Herring Comics, between 19.
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