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Podcast: The Comics Canon
Episode: Episode 72 – Persepolis Vol. 1: The Story of a Childhood
Description: In this episode, Curt and Kevin discuss another graphic novel that has taken on a new level of relevance in today's political landscape: the first volume of Marjane Satrapi's comics autobiography Persepolis. It's an engrossing and eye-opening account of the author's childhood in the late 70s and early 80s, as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Islamic Revolution and a subsequent war with Iraq—seismic events that placed her family in danger and took the lives of friends and loved ones including her beloved uncle Anoosh. Will rebellious young Marjane survive life in an op...