The book ends with a 14-year-old Marji, palms pressed against the airport’s dividing glass, her chador ... West. “Persepolis” deploys all the paranoid Expressionism latent in the comic ...

Persepolis remains one of the great graphic novels of all time and one of the best movie adaptations of a comic book. Created by Iranian expat French cartoonist, now movie director Marjane Satrapi ...

The English translation of the now classic memoir Persepolis by comics artist ... and well beyond the author's home country. In 2014, the book was second on the American Library Association's ...

When Persepolis was first published by ... to PW while on vacation in Stockholm about her shift from comics to film, the banning of books in America, and her pride in Iran's young revolutionaries.

were at least picking up and engaging with some of the best comics around, as well as some of the bestselling. In the No. 2 slot on the new Most Frequently Challenged Books list is “Persepolis ...

Marjane Satrapi, author of "Persepolis ... would read a 280-page book on the history and society of Iran, but a graphic narrative draws you right in. SATRAPI: A comic has this advantage because ...

Marjane Satrapi, a graphic novelist, holds her latest book Woman, Life ... The author of the internationally acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis, about a young girl coming of age during Iran's ...

The French Iranian author and artist, best known for her graphic novel Persepolis ... women's protests are the focus of 'Persepolis' author Marjane Satrapi's new book PARIS — In her bright ...