Marjane Satrapi, author of "Persepolis," collaborates with others on a new graphic novel about Iran's "Women, Life, Freedom" protest movement. Marjane Satrapi has just published a new graphic ...

Sponsor Message Persepolis has a long history of garnering controversy, and well beyond the author's home country. In 2014, the book was second on the American Library Association's list of most ...

When author and artist Marjane Satrapi first published Persepolis, her graphic memoir of growing up in Iran, she didn’t expect it to become one of the most important graphic novels ever penned.

The phenomenon of Persepolis and its conversion of general readers to become a breakthrough bestseller opened the gates to today’s diverse graphic novel landscape. Now, Pantheon has put out a ...

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 ...

“To think, it was the same country.” Persepolis is a mostly black and white animation based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel of the same name (first published in 2000 ...

This scene is how “Persepolis” (2000) – Satrapi’s graphic novel memoir tracing the historic installation of the Islamic Republic through the complex prism of childhood – opens.

Marjane Satrapi has just published a new graphic novel despite having sworn off creating them 20 years ago. She's the author of the bestselling "Persepolis," about an Iranian girl's coming of age ...