Euro-Comics: Persepolis

Clearly by the title I had chosen to read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis is about the Islamic Revolution through perspective of child. While going through the story it reminded me about how I used to be on one particular political side and growing up to see the negative consequences of certain movements. Now side tracking from my personal history of politics, I found this piece to be very insightful different perspective of modern history of some Islamic based countries. I grew up surrounded by many young children that had immigrated from areas such as Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria because of the crisis that has been going on for as long ago since from what I recall 7th grade.

While it opposed what my friends seen with their own eyes and the stories that they have told, it was still interesting to read, and while I myself didn't agree with the beginning part of the graphic novel I couldn't put it down. I loved how the art style itself was similar to traditional Islamic art of figures (yes they did paint figures, it just wasn't often to paint figures as a religious representation of Allah or other holy figures) and of geometric/ vegetative patterns. The ink work I found to be really nice in a simplistic and graphic way. Usually I’m more into crosshatching when it comes to inking, but this is one of few exceptions were I admire simple ink work. Personally, after reading this book, I would go out of my way to buy it for my own personal viewing and library.