EMBROIDERIES - Serio Comics 6
EMBROIDERIES written & drawn by Marjane Satrapi published by Pantheon Books and Penguin Random House and L'Association, translated from the French by Anjali Singh
OK, I mentioned back on February 23rd, when I did Seriocomics 5 about
IT'S LIFE AS I SEE IT: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980 compiled & edited by Dan Nadel, published by New York Review Comics & Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
That I’d likely be missing some time in order to write a new parody Haggadah
Well, that book was written and had an impact of sorts and we’re ready to get back to a more regular cadence of enthusiasms for works of graphic literature that are partly serious and partly comic
This next one was sort of requested by a reader of the Substack
Which, yes, inspires me to offer the same opportunity for any of you to request a work of graphic literature to be enthused about
Don’t worry at this point in my aesthetic judgment journey I can find something to like about anything (though please don’t actively try to prove me wrong lol)
So feel free to leave a comment with a request
This week’s enthusiasm is for Marjane Satrapi’s follow-up to her acclaimed two-book PERSEPOLIS series
Which was an autobiographical series of bandes dessinées (French comics) published in America in 2003 & 2004 and named after the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, which depicts Satrapi’s childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution as well as her cultural exposure to Western ideas in Europe
Her lessons from immigration/expatriation are perhaps best described by the phrase at the end of the second book: “Freedom has a price”
It was also adapted by Satrapi and the French artist, Winshluss, into an animated film for Sony Pictures Classics in 2007 that received numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature
Hint hint, graphic novels make great film adaptations ;)
This follow-up, EMBROIDERIES, was published in America in 2005
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