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Marjane Satrapi




Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi $15.25
($17.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		It's here: the most awaited comics sequel of 2004.  Find out what happens after Marjane left Iran in 1984, and upon her later return to Iran (as the title tells us) in this modestly priced hardcover that's hot off the press.  "Persepolis 2 is much more than the chronicle of a young woman’s struggle into adulthood; it’s a brilliant, painful, rendering of the contrast between East and West, between the repression of wartime Iran and the social, political, and sexual freedoms of 1980’s Austria. There’s something universal about Satrapi’s search for self-definition, but her experiences in Vienna and Tehran are rendered with such witty particularity, and such heartbreaking honesty, that by the end of this book you’ll feel you’ve gained an intimate friend." -- Julie Orringer, author of How To Breathe Underwater
Embroideries Marjane Satrapi $14.40
($16.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		If this book had been available when Elvis Costello penned "I Just Want to Hear Girls Talk," he might not have bothered -- he would have just picked this book up instead and been satisfied.  Because that's what this book is:  cover to cover girl talk (well, to be honest, women talk, but that would spoil our tenuous analogy).   This book lets you "behind the veil" and what you'll find is surprisingly universal in its applicability.
Tin House: The Graphic Issue Tom Tomorrow, Graham Rawle, Daniel Raeburn, Zak Smith and more ... Tin House Magazine $13.45
($14.95 list)
OUT OF STOCK!
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Read more and comment... 		Technically the first issue of the eighth volume of this funky yet respected journal of comtemporary arts and literature, this is the first issue (to our knowledge) that is devoted to all things comics. The group responsible for this issue bring a fresh, savvy, and somewhat outsiderish perspective to the wonderful world of comics and that world is a better place for it. We start off with a cover by the one and only Lynda Barry that serves as a preview of what's to come: not only an interview with the estimable Ms. Barry, but an eight page essay-on-art-in-art (Barry's own unique comics/collage hybrid) that is truly a one-of-a-kind piece that is simultaneously a feast for the eyes and mind. This piece alone is -- in our opinion -- worth the price of admission. But, there is much else to recommend this issue besides. Such as: learning that authors Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Chris Offutt and Luc Sante not only still have the comics they drew as children, but they're willing to have them printed in a nationally distributed magazine, and,when you're ready to handle it, they're hiding here in plain sight. While we're in the fan zone, this is an opportune time to mention long-suffering DC artist Karl Kessel's contribution -- a heartfelt appreciation of Jack Kirby's relatively unheralded creation, The Challengers of the Unknown (the entirety of which, by the way, was just collected by DC in the latest volume of their Showcase Presents series; yes, we have it in stock), which Kirby created for DC immediately before moving to Marvel to create The Fantastic Four with Stan Lee. But there's way more, starting with an amazing selection of excerpts, from: Marjane Satrapi's latest, Chicken with Plums; Martin Lemelman's upcoming graphic memoir, Mendel's Daughter; Zak Smith's insane project illustrating Thomas Pynchon's masterpiece, Gravity's Rainbow; Daniel Raeburn's fascinating historical survey of Mexican comics; and Graham Rawle's upcoming novel, Woman's World that is ENTIRELY composed (the editors say "assembled") out of cut and pasted exerpts from women's magazines -- and this is old school cut-and-paste we're talking about here, these excerpts are physically cut and pasted so you see the original fonts and X-acto cut strips laid side by side, making this a work of collage as well. OK, I guess we've got to stop, but there's really quite a bit more including a new Tom Tomorrow, storyboards for an upcoming Dylan biopic, not to mention the regular fiction and poetry features. Check this issue out, it's a bargain!
Chicken with Plums Marjane Satrapi Pantheon $15.25
($16.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		This much anticipated new work by Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis, Persepolis 2) is now on our shelves. Those of you who who were -- like us -- fans of Persepolis but were subsequently disappointed -- as we were -- with rushed, lackadaisical quality of Satrapi's last work, Embroideries, and were worried that she was a "one-hit wonder" and Persepolis was all she was going to be good for can now rest assured that this is not the case: Chicken With Plums is an amazing tale that is artfully told and that leaves the reader with much to ponder. Our only gripe is with Pantheon for doing a fairly shoddy job on the printing as there are several places where her white-on-black lettering is blurred by poor attention paid somewhere in the printing process. Her work deserves better. This time around Satrapi gives us a family legend, the story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his life for music and love. Set in Tehran in 1958, her uncle, one of Iran’s most revered sitar players, discovers that his beloved instrument is irreparably damaged. Though he tries, he cannot find one to replace it, one whose sound speaks to him with the same power and passion with which his music speaks to others. In despair, he takes to his bed, renouncing the world and all its pleasures, closing the door on the demands and love of his wife and his four children. Over the course of the week that follows, his family and close friends attempt to change his mind, but Nasser Ali slips further and further into his own reveries that are filled with flashbacks and flash-forwards, all related in Satrapi's warm and welcoming style that, while it at first comes across as being naive in its simplicity, reveals itself to be exceptionally perceptive as it effortlessly exposes much about the workings of the human psyche.
The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Pantheon $22.22
($24.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		As you may or may not know, the graphic novel Persoplis, which was originally released in two parts a couple years back, is "now a major motion picture."  Persepolis was a huge hit here at Copacetic, and now it is available in a single volume.  Those remaining few stragglers out there who have yet to check this out, are now provided with a new opportunity to do so.