RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.
Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.
I know it’s gonna sound rather too specific, but my favorite thing of RoTJ was how Luke and Palpatine knew each other for exactly ten seconds and already hated the other! I mean, the second they crossed eyes, we could hear the Kill Bill sirens in the background. They death glare after the first quote and were two seconds apart from rolling down the throne stairs kicking and punching each other and every phrase they said was meant to slap the other, I always found that mutual rage hilarious! And Vader standing there like ‘Goddamnit, someone is gonna die today…’ was so relatable LOL.
Could you draw Luke and Palpatine mutual hate dynamics please… I would love to see it in your art style.
that's just what happens when two catty divas collide <3 however saying they met for 10 seconds kinda undersells all the prior beef (especially on Palps' part)
Idk if you already answered this but what do you think the rest of the rebellion (mostly Mon Mothma and Padme other friends) reacted to luke and leia being Anakin and padme’s kids? Any bets won about their not so secret marriage?
omg I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WITH MON and yess there were DEFINITELY bets abt anidala
I saw the prompts "illuminated manuscript" and "medieval marginalia" for Kanan/Hera & Jacen and may have gotten obsessed with metallic paint. I need to gild everything now
Text transcription of the aurebesh and research below the cut
Text: When in times long gone in lands far far away did greatest of heroes live, whose stories now we tell. Of wise and loving Kanan, Knight of Jedi, and his beloved Hera, great battle leader and swiftest in flight, and of their crew of the Ghost, who with wit and will, blaster and blade, did save Lothal and strike such blows to the Empire that their names yet echo throughout the stars.
Inspiration: I looked predominantly at late 13th century and early 14th Psalters and Books of Hours, especially The Psalter Hours from The Morgan Library & Museum, the Codex Manesse from the Heidelberg University Library (especially for Kanan's hair), and the Luttrell Psalter from the British Library both for the design for the border and in general how to depict faces, animals, and clothing. Zeb and Kallus's fighting stances were taken from a German combat treatise, the poses for the Loth-cats were inspired by cats from the Workshop Bestiary, and I changed the usual leaves on the decorative vines to be heraldic wheat to represent Lothal's grasslands.
Materials: Acrylics, ink pen, & alcohol markers, on paper I washed with watercolors to look more like old vellum.
Made as my Candy Hearts entry on Ao3
This took forever but was a ridiculously fun project! I am in love with metallic paint now. Pic of the wolf in different lighting so it shows
The Little Slave, The Little Queen, The big Villains, The Little Farmer, the Little Princess, and a Little Happy ending,,,
Happy Star Wars day!!!! and happy birthday to me...Veeery late on the day, but I had 6 hours of no electricity nkjs. Anyways, I'm happy i took my time with these <3
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