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“The cozy illustrations feel like I’m in somebody’s home being told this story,” says Jordan Sondler, author of the graphic book Feel It Out, adding that the intimacy makes this difficult topic “more easily digestible,” while Gupta says Persepolis “uses the graphic novel medium to the full potential.” The book brings a foreign time and place to life through “very simple details allowing the reader to really understand the range of emotions and feelings of the characters.”įor a lighter, “deeply hilarious” read, Radtke and Korn love Walter Scott’s Wendy: Master of Art series. And to tell it so beautifully, too.” All three of the experts say Satrapi’s artwork is done in a way that feels deeply relatable to readers. Varud Gupta, author of the graphic novel Chhotu: A Tale of Love and Partition, says Satrapi captures this moment in time “so effortlessly, bringing alive the history and culture of the period through both humor and sadness to weave a captivating part memoir, part political narrative.” Wong calls it “the biggest influence on my own work, because until then I hadn’t realized that you could use comics and in that way to tell a really highly personal story, to tell a true story. The book follows Satrapi’s life in Tehran from age 6 to 14, a time during the Islamic Revolution and later the Iran–Iraq War.
Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis, which has since been made into an animated movie, was recommended by three experts. It isn’t overproduced, either, which gives it a raw, honest quality.” “The novel is truly hilarious.” Dehler adds that reading the book “feels really intimate - it’s laid out like I’m peeking into a family album. “Reading such an emotional, complex story isn’t always as fun as Bechdel’s made it,” Dehler, who’s an artist, says of the self-proclaimed family tragicomic. I feel like a lot of comic artists can say that,” she says, adding that it was a “breakthrough book” to get more mainstream readers “to read books of comics and treat them as literature.” Wong, author of the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, also calls it “hugely influential” because Bechdel digs into her family secrets through “remarkable imagery and layout work” that has stuck with her. “I probably wouldn’t have become a comic artist myself if it wasn’t for Alison Bechdel. Radtke, who’s a writer and illustrator herself, and whose book Seek You is featured on this list, credits Bechdel as an influence on her own work. Weeks after the revelation, her father dies, leaving Bechdel to grieve and come to terms with these newfound truths.
The memoir is an intimate family history of when Bechdel comes out as a lesbian and discovers that her father was also gay. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel was the only book recommended by four experts: Teresa Wong, Kate Dehler, Kristen Radtke, and Anya Davidson.
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