Marjane Satrapi Always Defied Convention

Marjane Satrapi Always Defied Convention

There are stories about post-Revolution Iran—and there are the stories of Marjane Satrapi, the trailblazing artist, author, and director who last week passed away at age 56 in Paris, “of sadness” over the death of her husband in 2025, according to Agence France-Presse.Far too often, personal stories penned by Iranians tell of families whose comfortable lives in Pahlavi-era Iran are upended by the 1979 Revolution, and who begrudgingly leave the l…

‘2,500 years of tyranny and submission’: what we can learn from reading Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis during the Iran War

Cover of the book Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. BalkansCat/Shutterstock Comic book author Marjane Satrapi passed away last week in Paris at age 56, just before conflict between Israel and her native Iran re-erupted. While her work has enjoyed enduring fame, the present conflict has made it more relevant than ever before. Satrapi’s work is unique for how it weaves her own personal story with Iran’s history and politics. In her comics and film P…