Giora Rotman

Giora Rotman was one of the most talented Israeli artists of adventure comics of the 1970s. He was the main artist for the magazine Haaretz Shelanu, for which he produced about 14 long realistic adventure comics. One of his best-known comics was 'Melisalda', which was written by Pinhas Sadeh and serialized in 1971-72. Later titles were the war comic 'Yoske Mayor' (1972-73) with writer Dov Zigelman and the historical 'Abirey Hakotel Hamaaravi' ('Knights of the Western Wall', 1974).

Another collaboration with Sade restulted in 'Cholot Adumim' (1974), a story about the Yom Kippur war. When Sade left the comics field, Rotman continued to write and illustrate comic stories with science-fiction elements, such as 'Malkodet b’Mtzulot' ('Underwater Trap', 1974) and 'HaEmek HaKadum' ('The Ancient Valley', 1991).