Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is a stark, black-and-white graphic memoir originally serialized across four issues by France’s L’Association from 2000 to 2003. Satrapi both writes and draws this autobiographical account of her childhood in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, offering an intimate, human-scale perspective on a turbulent period of political and social upheaval. The series stands as a landmark work in autobiographical comics, widely celebrated for its ability to make complex history deeply personal through its deceptively simple, expressive art.