music like dirt (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Ryan (StopMe): I’ve spent a pleasant week reading a stack of new books I’ve just bought like Marjane Satrapi’s engrossing and witty ‘Chicken With Plums‘ and Alan Moore’s unsettling ‘From Hell‘ ( A journey into ...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Israeli director Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir has a lot in common with 2007’s Persepolis . Both are animated features reflecting their protagonists’ real-life experiences during tumultuous historical times. But while Persepolis filmmakers Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi simply adapted the imagery of her graphic novel to the screen, Folman has done something more intriguing. He’s taken a documentary...
Educating Petunia (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi After my lofty rave review of The Complete Maus I was immediately told to check out Persepolis being a similar graphic novel/memoir but this time of a girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Actually I knew it was a memoir but nothing else. To be honest, if I'd known it was about Iran I might have avoided it for a while longer because I am already...
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
I really enjoyed watching Persepolis yesterday. It is an animated film written for adults. I learned some interesting facts about the film from the special features on the dvd. It was entirely hand drawn using markers and felt tip pens. This makes it very different than much of todays animation. I think the artwork was quite beautiful. Marjane Satrapi says she was using some of the style in film of...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
At Salon, Laura Miller remembers David Foster Wallace. He was my favorite living writer, and I know I have plenty of company in that. His detractors accused him of being show-offy, of calling attention to his own cleverness, but they,...
Book Nut (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
I know this challenge is still going on until November 30th, but I've deemed September "finish up challenge month". We'll see if I can do it. :) I read: 1. Swordspoint , by Ellen Kushner. 2. John Adams , by David McCullough 3. Persepolis Vol 1 and 2 , by Marjane Satrapi I think it's a tie between John Adams and Persepolis as to which one is my favorite. At any rate, I enjoyed knocking a few books off...
Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
There are moments in the film Persepolis when the animation makes you gasp at its ability to tell you so much in such apparently simple images. Three notable instances of such illustrations are the young Marjane Satrapi morphing into the character we know so well from Munch’s The Scream, two snake-like female “guardians of the [...]
"Thoughts of Joy..." (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Author: Marjane Satrapi Genre: YA NF Graphic Published: 2004 Personal Rating: 4/5 Yearly Count: 117 Marjane continues her story from where Persepolis: A Story of a Childhood concluded. Her parents have sent her to Austria to escape the bombings and terror of war, giving her a chance to thrive with a good education. After struggling for 4 years to find herself amongst strangers, Marjane decides to go...
The Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Some of the funniest parts of Marjane Satrapi's delightful Persepolis concern the dress codes imposed by the Islamic moral police in Iran. People of both sexes were obliged to cover themselves more or less completely in order, the authorities claimed, to protect members of the public from the rampant sexuality of their fellow human beings. No man who was not a cleric could be trusted to control
The Age (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Cartoonist Marjane Satrapi's hilarious graphic novel turned movie lifts the veil on her feisty Iranian childhood.
The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Cazz Blase considers how Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical story of coming-of-age in Iran and Europe transfers to the big screen I first saw the film Persepolis in May at the Cornerhouse in Manchester, in French with English subtitles, and in high...
"Thoughts of Joy..." (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Author: Marjane Satrapi Genre: YA NF Graphic Published: 2003 Personal Rating: 4.25/5 Yearly Count: 105 In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi begins her story at the age of 10 and ends at the age of 14. She depicts the torment to her family and country through graphics by showing us the overthrowing of the Shah's regime, the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. The graphic format clearly portrays the...
Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Another day, another festival in Melbourne. Currently, along with all the other festivals that are no doubt happening at the moment, Melbourne is hosting the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Films worth seeing during MIFF include Persepolis (fans of Marjane Satrapi’s gorgeous graphic novels should make sure to see that flick). Since I already possess the DVD, I won’t [...]
Comixpedia - Webcomic News & Views Daily (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Onion's AV Club lists the 22 most unflattering comic confessionals in autobiographical comics. From Robert Crumb taking advantage of a drunken date to Marjane Satrapi's getting an innocent man arrested, these artists' confessions dare you to like them, or at least understand them, as they pour it all out on the page for the world to see.
Business Times Asiaone (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
IRANIAN-BORN Marjane Satrapi, better known as the writer and director of Persepolis, once said of her animation feature: 'I wanted (to use the film) help people see the Iranians as human beings like other people.'
