Marjane Satrapi: The Dissident Artist Who Created ‘Persepolis’

Marjane Satrapi Was Once a Feminist Icon, Now She’s Reviled as an Avatar of Fascism › American Greatness

On Friday, June 4, Marjane Satrapi died of a broken heart a little over a year after the untimely passing of her husband, Mattias Rippa. Satrapi was a writer…

Marjane Satrapi ‘is not ded’

The French-Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi sadly died earlier this month, at only fifty-six, but her art leaves a legacy that will last generations. Persepolis, the author’s most celebrated work, reflects the daily struggle of our relationship to powers beyond us (specifically, corrupt governments) while reassuringly demonstrating that familial love endures, despite it all.I first encountered Satrapi in 2008, aged thirteen…

Marjane Satrapi: The dissident artist who created ‘Persepolis’

Marjane Satrapi made revolutionary Iran come alive in stark black-and-white images. The Iranian-born writer, artist, and director was best known worldwide as the creator of Persepolis, the groundbreaking graphic novel describing her childhood experiences of the Islamic fundamentalist 1979 revolution that ripped away women’s rights and led to the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War. Published in four parts, from 2000 to 2003, Persepolis sold millions of…