The English translation of the now classic memoir Persepolis by comics artist, painter and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi turned 20 this year — and it's being celebrated with the release of a new hardcover ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock. Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian artist, filmmaker, and author whose comic-book ...

French-Iranian artist and activist Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel “Persepolis” brought home the struggle of the Iranian people to millions around the world, has died. She was 56. A statement ...

Author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi has died at the age of 56, and if you've never picked up her memoir Persepolis, I'm here to tell you that it's a must-read Persepolis is a graphic novel in which ...

Teachable. The biggest compliment a college professor can give to a book or a movie is to say that it’s “teachable.” Over the years, somewhat to my dismay, this has become the main criterion I use to ...

Marjane Satrapi, who has died aged 56, defined a generation’s view of Iran with Persepolis, an autobiography in comic-book form that sold two million copies and became a hit animated film. She ...

(FILES) Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi during a photocall for her animated film 'Persepolis' in the Festival Palace in Cannes(AFP) Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian author, died at 56 "out of ...

Family members said the author of the landmark comic book memoir ‘died of sadness’ after the death of her husband last year Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian artist, film-maker and graphic novelist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marjane Satrapi: she never learnt how to draw the body properly because in Iran the female models were swathed in burqas, and she ...