On November 7th, GRCC hosted an event titled "Just a comic book?" as part of our One Book program.
The speaker for the event was Leonard Rifas, who currently teaches a course on graphic novels and sequential art at Seattle Central Community College. He is a comics scholar who has been published in The International Journal of Comic Art, the Comics Journal, ImageText, and other publications. He is the Founder of EduComics, an educational comic book company and creator of Corporate CRIME Comics, All-Atomic Comics, Energy Comics, Food Comics, Tobacco Comics, AIDS News, The Big Picture: visualizing the global economy, and other titles.
The goal of the event was to further our awareness and understanding of graphic works and see how Persepolis fits in with its "peers." Rifas pointed out that Satrapi's work is unique in that it is the only graphic work addressing the Iran-Iraq war. He also discussed Satrapi's simple drawing style, similar to the depiction of the mice in Spiegelman's Maus, is a technique that helps us identify with the characters.
Rifas discussed many works and authors in his talk, so if you'd like to learn more on the topic, come by the campus library and check them out! Here are a few:
Barefoot Gen: a cartoon story of Hiroshima / Keiji Nakazawa
Epileptic / David B.
Maus I: a survivor's tale / Art Spiegelman
Persepolis: the story of a childhood / Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis 2: the story of a return / Marjane Satrapi
Understanding comics: the invisible art / Scott McCloud
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