Mar 22, 2020
Marjane Satrapi was ten years old at the start of the Iranian Revolution, and her comics memoir Persepolis explores what it was like to grow up in that environment. It’s a story of the Iranian Revolution, which began in 1979, but it’s also the story of one individual life in a time of great crisis, moving into the Iranian diaspora. Chris and Suzanne discuss this personal story of revolution, how a child’s understanding of events can be useful for introducing topics to readers, and the difficulties of talking about comics on podcasts.
