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[Dean Haspiel] man_size: Tonight: GRAPHIC NOVELS AND NON-NOVELS at KGB Bar: Harvey Pekar has called "graphic non-novels" -- memoirs in the form of book-length comics. (Other examples include Art Spiegelman's MAUS I and II and Marjane Satrapi's PERSEPOLIS.) What, precisely, is involved in writing and drawing .

[boxwish.com features feed] Top five graphic novel movies you didn't know were graphic novels ...: In a toast to Watchmen, we look at the quirkiest graphic novels to attract Hollywood’s attention

[AV Club] In the wake of Watchmen: 24 more graphic novels we’d like to see ...: The current boom of superhero movies isn’t likely to help Jeff Smith’s Bone hit theaters, but maybe the increasing sophistication and variety in animated films will—surely a world that can bring Persepolis to the big screen intact can handle Smith’s fantasy world. Smith’s series, which takes some of its cartoony look from Pogo and some from Disney classics, should in theory be an easy sell for a producer: It starts out as a cheery Looney Tunes comedy, suitable for younger viewers, and develops into an exciting epic fantasy full of dragons, magic, and walking corpses, without ever losing that sense of kid-accessibility.

[Jinni Blog] The Based-on-a-Graphic-Novel Hall of Fame - Jinni Blog: The author, Marjane Satrapi, also wrote and directed the movie. The movie was a success despite the unusual black-and-white 2D animation style and not aiming for teen audiences like most graphic novel-based movies.

[Pop Vox: Newsweek's Daily Arts and Culture Blog] Pop Vox: Newsweek's Daily Arts and Culture Blog : Don't Believe ...: Let's get a grip, people””"Watchmen" may well be the best graphic novel out there (though Art Spiegelman's "Maus," Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" and Moore's own "From Hell" arguably rival it), but it's simply not TEH GREATEST THING EVER .

[Outdoor Movies!] Jakarta, Indonesia: Review of “Persepolis” (2007) at the Outdoor ...: Co-directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, based on Satrapi’s graphic novels, “Persepolis” has some of the blithe, spindly finesse of a New Yorker cartoon, but a cartoon that at any given moment threatens to descend into inky expressionist gloom.

[Comics and Graphic Novels] Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood & The Story of a Return: v. 1 ...: It seems that now, when I talk to "serious literature" people about comics, they immediately mention Persepolis (just had a movie out) and Art Spiegleman's Maus (done in the 80's with no movie likely to ever come out. I'm still waiting for mention of Optic Nerve and it looks like following this summer's Dark Knight movie, a lot more people will be watching the Watchmen.

[GetListy] Watchmen: Movies from graphic novels | GetListy: 300 | A History of Violence | American Splendor | Art School Confidential | From Hell | Ghost World | graphic novels | movies from graphic novels | Persepolis | Road to Perdition | Sin City | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | V ...

[Meandering Entertainer] Persepolis: Satrapi Seeks Purpose in Life « Meandering Entertainer: The next 30 minutes or so are spent with Marjane as a young girl whose life changes instantly when a revolution shatters the Iranian regime under the Shah. From a child who believes she will be a prophet, and who thought that the Shah was chosen by god, Marjane eventually grows into an unsatisfied young adult who is disillusioned with a variety of ideologies and hopelessly searches for a niche in the world.

[Observations on film art and FILM ART] Observations on film art and FILM ART : Showing what can’t be filmed: We’re so used to fly-on-the-wall documentaries that we may be suspicious of the cobra-like caricatures of the female teachers in Persepolis or the hallucinatory dawn bombardment in Bashir. Yet animation can show things, like the Israeli veterans’

[The Underwire] Will Mixed Watchmen Reviews Dim Dark Knight-Like Payday? | The ...: There's a reason The Catcher In The Rye hasn't been made into a movie, and its the same reason that Watchmen probably shouldn't be. However, someone would have inevitably made Watchmen into a movie - especially now when superhero and graphic novel adaptations are making huge money - and as Zach Snyder said he was afraid that if he didn't do it, someone else would and would ruin it.

[Comments for THE BEAT] THE BEAT » Blog Archive » WATCHMEN supplemental: […] Watching The Watchmen Watchers 07: Fact-Checking, Comics Industry Reviews * Jeet Heer blasts Anthony Lane wearing his ignorance of the graphic novel like a badge of honor in his Watchmen review. It’s probably time for editors to nudge their writers away from these kinds of bizarre summary statements, but I was a bit more worried by the math that put Nixon in 1985 as serving a third term rather than a fifth.

[Blog@Newsarama] Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » 5 most influential comics: You could make a case for Hellboy, Sin City, Astro City, Concrete, The Perry Bible Fellowship, Y: The Last Man, Jimmy Corrigan, Finder, The Ultimates, The Killing Joke, Ghost World, Kingdom Come, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, The Invisibles, Cerebus, Pearls Before Swine, Stray Bullets, X-Statix, Flaming Carrot, Preacher, and a hundred others. Thanks to the emergence of the internet, the past 20 years have seen a real blossoming of different types of comics and diverse readerships, from webcomics and manga to superheroes and the daily funnies.

[Get Graphic] Get Graphic » Blog Archive » Upcoming Events!!!: April 18, 2009: There will be a movie screening of Persepolis at the Central Library Auditorium along with discussion by Carine Mardorossian. 

[mjmurdoc's Weblog] Persepolis Final Thoughts « mjmurdoc’s Weblog: However, when you actually do pick this graphic novel up and actually read it and follow the sequences and follow her upbringing and childhood in revolutionary Iran, you find out it is a lot more serious and dangerous than your typical funnies section in the Sunday paper. She expresses her childhood from the age of six, to the age of fourteen when her parents send her out of the country on her own.

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