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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was an awful amount of fuss when a Tunisian TV station broadcast the movie version of Persepolis. But that may have been expected. The film was also banned in Lebanon, but that ruling was ...

In her bright Paris apartment, Marjane Satrapi makes coffee, her cat rolling at a visitor’s feet. The author of the internationally acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis, about a young girl coming of age ...

It’s been a long time since comics were just for kids, but increasingly they’re also no longer just for superheroes. The exploding popularity of graphic novels has opened up comics to new audiences ...

The controversy over the Chicago Public Schools restricting access to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of her youth in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, continues to roil the nation’s third ...

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 ...