Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis is great—I’ve taught it to hundreds of students over the years—but on a personal level, her book Embroideries affected me even more. Give it a read if you aren’t familiar with it.
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The Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker was perhaps most well-known for the graphic memoir, and subsequent film, about her life during the Iranian revolution in 1979.