I’ve waited so long to be able to write this… Last night I went to see Persepolis. Its film premiere took place at London’s BFI cinema complex, which is about 200 miles from home. A long way to travel just to go the cinema hey? And we were half an hour late. No matter, the hour [...]

After falling off my bike on Tuesday resulting in a mangled up mouth and thick lips I’ve been pretty miserable, but today I have some great news! Marjane Satrapi’s book ‘Persepolis‘ is being made into a 100% hand-drawn animation. The Independent have the word here. She is brilliant. If you haven’t read these books you [...]

I decided to make the most of my bank holiday Monday by lying in bed reading Persepolis directly followed by Persepolis 2 with a couple of Tofutti Cuties close at hand. The first of these remarkable autobiographic memoirs focuses on Satrapi’s childhood and the struggle of growing up during the Iranian Islamic Revolution. The overthrow [...]