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| Print | Written by Elizabeth Schweitzer Friday, 14 October 2011 06:11 Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis and Chicken with Plums, now brings readers a whimsical fairy tale about a young girl who uses her wits and tenacity to save her true love and restore the Kingdom of Sighs. 56 pgs. full color; $10.95 hardcover (W / [...]

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in the communist Poland of the 1980s where Marzena Sowa grew up, fruit and sugar were so rare that whenever they were in stock, she and her family rose at dawn and raced to the store to wait hours in line. American toothpaste was so delicious that little Marzi and her friends gobbled it like [...]

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Bloomsbury £12.99 Dumbing down? no, adding depth Reviewed by Laura Sneddon Sunday, 25 September 2011 Graphic novel adaptations are often met with an onslaught of criticism before they have even been released; victims of a near subconscious belief that when it comes to the world of fiction, words are good, pictures bad. Any assertion that [...]

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Persepolis was a gripping memoir of Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian girl who grew up during a time when her country was undergoing both severe internal unrest due to the Islamic Revolution and frightening external attacks from Iraq. as a parallel process to this, Marjane was experiencing her own internal, adolescent unrest in addition to attacks [...]

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Persepolis, a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, was a memoir explaining life in Iran. this epic tale made the reader get a glimpse into what life was like for those in Iran at the time when the Islamic Fundamentalists were taking over control of the country. besides giving the reader a slice of history from [...]

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Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. new York: Pantheon, 2003. Marjane’s world is turned upside down when fundamentalist rebels overthrow the Shah of Iran. The graphic novel traces the ups and downs of an average teenage girl who is into rock music and playing with her friends set against the backdrop of revolution [...]

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Holy hell. this post has been a long time in the making. I’ve just been so bloody busy with stuff that I’ve not had a chance to come up for air. I actually read Persepolis while on holiday in Cape Verde on the first week in July, but when I got home I had a [...]

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Written by Katie Hutchinson, Outhouse Contributor Outhouse Contributor Katie Hutchinson discusses prolific comics geared towards girls in the latest edition of Nerd Boner Alert! as a librarian in charge of ordering all the juvenile and young adult books, I see a lot of webinars. Webinars for upcoming books. Webinars on how to integrate literacy into [...]

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I have been a great fan of animation movies and cartoons for as long as I can remember. I am told that, as a kid, I never used to have lunch without the daily dose of Tom & Jerry Cartoons which used to air on Delhi Doordarshan I have my share of favourites of which [...]

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