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Everyone in her stories, male and female, has positive and negative traits. Her adored, jasmine-filled-bra wearing grandmother, we learn in Embroideries, was awfully nasty before her morning dose of opium. And a mullah administering an ideological school-entrance exam passes her even when she gives the "wrong" answer to a question about the sinfulness of women's hair: A flippant young Satrapi says God wouldn't have made it if it was so bad, and the mullah admires her honesty.
Comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus series are frequent and inevitable. Spiegleman's groundbreaking graphic novels used anthropomorphic mice to depict the horrors of the Holocaust. Satrapi has said that while she's honored by the comparison, she could see Speigelman being annoyed - every young graphic novelist, after all, gets compared to Spiegelman. In an interview with Bookslut, she said she once phoned him to apologize and to note that the comparisons weren't coming from her, touching off a friendship between the two.See the full content of this document
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Anyone curious about life in Iran during the revolution of 1979, and since, would do well to visit Marjane Satrapi's world. The graphic novelist's autobio...
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