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Comic in Iran

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:59 / 17.07.03

To hear her tell it, Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi is doing battle with these images -- the ones produced by both the United States and Iran. Her ammunition? The memoir of her childhood, Persepolis, a "comic," as she calls it, that tells the story of her coming of age during the violent birth of the Islamic Republic. "

14:39 / 17.07.03

Which coincidentally enough I was proposing we all read over here...

We're The Great Old Ones Now

16:05 / 17.07.03

Oops. I'm an eejit. Sorry, Sleaze, just found it and was intrigued. Nice link, though.