 She subsequently produced illustrations for many of the company's principal releases, including an edition of Ion Creangă's "Childhood Memories" and the first Romanian-language edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit".A member of the Hungarian-Romanian community, Rusz escaped communist political pressures by settling in Budapest, Hungary in 1987.She continued to live there, and has also become recognized as a contributor to the Hungarian comics school.