Hello Fellow comic book lovers and followers, and welcome to another installment of my comic book/graphic novel review! Today, I will be reviewing a personal favorite of mine that follows a little bit of history around a controversial situation between Iran and Iraq during the Islamic revolution. If any of you have guessed by now through that major hint, you will know that I will be talking about, “Persepolis” by famous writer, animator and graphic artist, Marjane Satrapi.

This whole autobiographical novel, (or two depending on if you order the book in two parts form the English formatted one) is an illustrated biography based on Satrapi’s life as a child growing up to be an adult during the Islamic revolution and what her country’s culture dictated for men and women. In the beginning we are introduced through a third person narrative by Marjane herself in almost a flash back series explaining her transformation from a little, innocent Iranian girl to a proud middle eastern feminist.  The introduction to her life is simple and innocent, as all children’s childhoods are, but like many children, their fates will be shaped by the direction their curiosity faces when in the direction of the real world. In Satrapi’s case, the march of revolution. As she grew older, Marjane, paid more attention to the ideals and knowledge of her parents and her parent’s friends who were also supporters in the revolution. For years, struggles, raids and bombardment of terror, death and political ideology conflicts plagued her home until there was finally change made in the revolution. Unfortunately as she grew more and more into adult hood and learned more about the teachings and edicate for Middle Eastern women, this would lead her down a path to explore and understand the universal means of freedom and equality for not just for basic gender rights activists, but for humanitarian rights for her and her people.

This would conclude what I have to say for this wonderful and emotionally powerful novel. I could go on and on in more detail about this autobiographical piece of literature, but I have more readings to read and prepare for reviews so unfortunately, time is of the essence for me. However, I will leave off on a strong recommendation and approval for people who would like to read this book and experience it’s amazing art and true story for themselves, as well as taking a look into the animated film styling’s of Persepolis as it was turned into a full feature length animated film which looks as if the book itself came to life.