Persepolis is an underdog at the Academy Awards. In a category — animated feature film — that typically honors big-budgeted, big-earning American films, her little movie has a number of ...

So You Haven't Read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? This comic is about growing up in Iran during the tumultuous 1980s and the Islamic Revolution. Following the author's real-life events and ...

FARMINGTON —“Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi, is the next featured topic in the University of Maine at Farmington’s New Commons project. Persepolis is Satrapi’s poignant, autobiographical ...

MARTIN GROVE interviews Marjane Satrapi, pictured, whose animated "Persepolis" is France's official entry for a foreign language Academy Award and might vie with "Ratatouille" for best animated ...

Satrapi first told her story in the autobiographical graphic novels "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" and "Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return." Now she brings her story to the screen in the ...

When Persepolis was first published by Pantheon two decades ago, Iranian expatriate French cartoonist Marjane Satrapi brought North America a child’s-eye view of revolution in the middle east ...

In “Persepolis,” writer-director Marjane Satrapi (with co-director/co-writer Vincent Paronnaud, a figure in the underground comic world) details her life, first in Iran during the Islamic ...

The astonishment upon meeting "Persepolis" writer and co-director Marjane Satrapi isn't discovering that she's smart, funny, charming, beautiful, worldly, articulate and principled. Indeed, you ...

Satrapi and co-director/co-writer Vincent Paronnaud embrace the comic-strip style of line drawing from her books, and find an evocative richness in the austere and seemingly simple form. Every ...

Marjane Satrapi, a writer and comic artist best known for her current film “Persepolis,” will give a talk in Seattle at the Moore Theatre, 1932 Second Ave., on Monday, April 14, at 7: ...