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 [...]