Three thousand, three hundred and twenty-four, and counting. According to the NGO Save The Children, the death toll for children in Gaza and the West Bank already exceeds the total number of annual deaths for minors living in war zones across the world over the last three years. Be it Homer’s Iliad, the Mahabharat, or Herodotus’ Histories, epics and histories …
In nearly every interview she’s given, Marjane Satrapi has refused to refer to her 2000 book Persepolis as a graphic novel. The Persepolis books ignited the very genre of the graphic memoir, inspiring writer-artists to document their own childhoods in conflict zones as far apart as Côte d’Ivoire and Argentina. In 2009, Iranian activists replaced Satrapi’s original drawings with updated …
