Meet the author

Ileana Surducan.

Writer & illustrator · Romania

Ileana Surducan: a Romanian cartoonist whose Eisner-nominated folktale The Lost Sunday turns burnout and the right to rest into a magical, beautifully drawn quest, whimsical, warm and quietly wise for readers 7 and up.

Ileana Surducan is a Romanian cartoonist and illustrator who works across comics, illustration and ceramics. In our corpus she is represented by The Lost Sunday, an Eisner-nominated all-ages graphic novel published by Oni Press and drawn from old European folklore and fairy tale. In a dusty, teetering town where nobody ever stops, six wolves, one for every working day, keep everyone rushing, and a girl named Nina sets off across rope bridges and rickety ladders to win back the seventh day, Sunday, stolen long ago by a witch. Inventive, funny and beautifully drawn, it shines a warm, magical light on a very modern problem, the exhaustion of always doing and the quiet importance of rest, making its case without ever preaching. Perfectionism, courage, community and imagination run through the quest.