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, it ...

From Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. The English translation of the now classic memoir Persepolis by comics artist, painter and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi turned 20 this year — and it's being celebrated ...

PARIS Two Shanghai-based young Iranians are defying the Tehran regime with a reworked version of the award-winning graphic novel 'Persepolis,' telling the story of Iran's bloody post-election uprising ...

Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation — although its drawings do have a handcrafted charm forgotten in the era of the CGI-‘toon juggernauts — but ...

London: When Marjane Satrapi released her graphic novel Persepolis, based on her life and set against the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian revolution, she insisted it was a love letter to her homeland.

In 2003, French-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi received a lot of acclaim for her serialized autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis about her life growing up in Iran and her return years later to ...

Marjane Satrapi's memoir has a history of garnering controversy — it's been on the ALA's list of most challenged books and continues to be the... The English translation of the now classic memoir ...