Tag: Marjane Satrapi

Karina Shor, author of Silence, Full Stop., shares 10 inspirational and meaningful women’s graphic novel biographies.

Marjane Satrapi is done with comics, Keith Davidson has joined Mad Cave, James Gunn is a marketing genius, some weird comics stats, and more

The Franklin Regional School District opted to hold teaching the graphic novel following parental complaints.

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Yet more maudlin wallowing in olden days from the author.

Comic artist and film director Marjane Satrapi has recently revealed her latest project blending her two areas of expertise. Her new film Radioactive will be an adapation of Lauren Redniss's 2010 experimental graphic novel Radioactive: Marie &...

https://twitter.com/beckycloonan/status/918253791983652864 § Nice Art: Inktober continues, this time from Becky Cloonan. § So when I reported on that story about the handyman stealing $250,000 worth of art and comicsfrom a Sparta, NJ home the other...

Frankly, we need this book.

What could be cuter than the above image of Ryan Reynolds talking to a kitty and a puppy and...a woman's severed head? Oops. It's all part of Marjane Satrapi's directing career. Satrapi's Persepolis...

As we suspected when the news broke, the removal of Persepolis from the seventh grade curriculum at a Chicago high school turned in to a minor media circus pretty quickly, with school officials saying different things all over the place. If you missed all the confusion, the Chicago Tribune has the authoritative round up and Claire Kirch covers it for PW. Basically it emerged that the book was not being removed from school libraries or all schools, but it is being removed from the 7-10 grade curriculum where it is is currently being taught. The person who seems to have decided that is at the very top: Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennnet who wrote

While Persepolis remains one of the most important comics of the graphic novel era, creator Marjane Satrapi seems to have moved on to different avenues for her talents, likebooks and making movies, such as the Oscar-nominated animated version of Persepolis. And now she's having her first showing of her paintings in a Paris gallery.

Already Oscar-nominated for the PERSEPOLIS film she co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi is mostly sticking to the film medium for now. The trailer and poster for a film based on her graphic novel CHICKEN WITH PLUMS is now out. Once again co-directed by Satrapi and Paronnaud (aka Winschluss), this time, instead of animation, the duo are using live action to tell the story of a violinist in 1958 Tehran: