Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, serialized across four issues from Ordfront Galago in 2004–2005, is a stark, black-and-white autobiographical memoir that chronicles her childhood and early adult years during and after the Iranian Revolution. Told with unflinching honesty and poignant humor, it captures the clash between personal freedom and political upheaval through the eyes of a young girl growing up in Tehran. This series became a landmark work in graphic literature for its intimate, human-scale perspective on a world-changing historical event, and its serialized form built the foundation for the acclaimed collected edition.