i had to force myself to finish this comic to see if it ever got good at any point but it was just the stupid story of an angry arab girl moving to the western world and then becoming an angry slut. is that supposed to be deep or something?
It's not good but it shows islamic countries like the authoritarian shitholes they are. That alone justifies its existence.
>>152287513This
Marjane a cutehttps://youtu.be/qrtwN7lolHs?si=81kp-5UGekNuIZzt
>>152287456I still can't get this fucking retarded woman>Iran was shit thank god my dad faught alongside the theocratic authoritarian regime!>Oh fuck that authoritarian regime is awful I have to leave!>France is great I can be a whore!>how dare you make fun of my shithole country!>I love going to my Country that's an authoritarian shithole.
>>152287564That's how women are
>>152287456Anon, a lot of acclaimed graphic novels are very good. Doubly so if they're an autobiography.
>>152287456It's not as good as Maus or Epileptic.>>152287662Not really.
>>152287456Anything autobio gets supremely overrated in comics.
>>152287662>>152287832Sorry, I meant to say they arent good
>>152287871Oh in that case, agreed. For me, it was Blankets. Blankets sucked. It sucked so bad it got me out of exploring autobiographical comics.Maus was good, though.
>>152287456It's a nice coming of age story, politics of the book aside.
>>152287557I love that song
>>152287594ok misogynist
>>152287456We had to watch the movie in school and I quite liked it from what I remember.But I was a kid so I was easily amused, and it had funny moments.Can't say I remember much about it now though, except for that Michael Jackson joke.
>>152287456>arabIdiot
>>152287564Technically that's not true. The fundies didn't start the Iranian revolution, it was upper middle class commie intellectuals and people in the middle class who were pissy that they were locked out of the cushy upper class jobs that went to all of the Shah's cronies. They HATED the poor and especially the poor fundie Muslims, who waited until the Mullahs gave the green light to join it towards the end, when victory was certain and pushed Khomeini (an exile who was a semi famous critic of the Shah in the west) as a temporary leader while free elections were organized and the middle class did shit like hold American embassy folk hostage.While the middle class were celebrating, Khomeini and the Mullahs, backed by the poor who hated the liberal/atheist middle class and their contempt for the poor and their religion, quickly consolidated power with help from the military, who saw the Fundies as the lesser of two evils. By the time the middle class commie Sloan ranger types realized the revolution had been hijacked and the poor fundies now ruled everything, they were screwed and either had to flee, bend the knee to the fundie Muslim lifestyle and keep their mouths shut, or be killed off if they tried a counter revolution.
I read this in high school but don’t remember if I finished it or just stopped reading it. It’s about some guy growing up with his epileptic retarded brother, I remember getting this feeling that he resented his brother and felt superior to him in every way.I do remember these scenes and thinking how fucked they were, He wrote about how he got his first boner when skinny dipping with his parents in a hippy commune and how he would piss in his brother’s mouth where he would happily drink it up.
>>1522874561) it isn't "supposed" to be, it is2) iranians are persian, not arab>>1522875133) now talk about operation ajax
>>152290386Don't look so shocked, anon. Most anons here think Africa is a country.
>>152287456Idk why this book got pushed so hard in the early 2010s. The opening is literally the only relevant part. The rest is basically just catcher in the rye but moody 30 year old whore instead of moody 15 year old who can't get laid.
>>152287456Its okay, though I only really felt bad for Assad (he was okay for a commie) and that one dude Marjane fucked over. I wonder what the Tyrol girl is up to?
>>152287456She has cute feet
>>152292052>catcher in the rye Any particular reason that's never been adapted to film? If it's such an iconic piece of literature, you would think that would've happened by now..
>>152294276the estate refused to sell the rights because they think no one could do it justice
>>152294297Ah damn :-/
>>152287564At the end, Marjane left for France because she realized her countrymen are insane
>>152287456Written by a foreign chick. That's it.
>>152294276https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye#In_filmFilms often ruins the plot of the book
>>152287513It's funny because literally the only good people are the capitalists and Americans. Her family where all socialists who wanted communist Russia to take over and then Russia told them to fuck off and let the country be overran with extremist. Then she moves to France where she hangs out with a bunch of spoiled communists who constantly back stab and treat everyone like garbage till her 20s when she moves back and sees just how horrid her country has become due to her shitty politics.
>>152287456Literally the only reason why the Graphic Novels section of public libraries exists.
>>152292052It's probably one of the more recent examples of the general public saying "wow, comics aren't just for kids anymore, they can almost be literary!"
>>152287594>That's how women areNo because guys are like that too:>how dare yew tawk bad about muh poorfag hellhole with rampant poverty mass homelessness and more people behind bars than any other country
>>152296725Really? Persepolis did that?
>>152287910What pretty trees
>>152294276What did Sugar mean by this?
>>152294276Combination of factors1. Sallinger got screwed over by a major studio on a previous adaptation so he refused to sell the rights to his later works 2. The death of John Lennon (which was inspired by the book) combined with its status as being among the top banned books in schools make it akin to Blood Meridian as far as books too controversial to adapt3. Sallinger grew resentful of how Catcher overshadowed his other works, combined with him becoming becoming a recluse, led to him refusing to let adaptations happen
Breadwinner is better
>>152298752Underrated film
>>152298752Does she have cute feet
>>152294297Well they ain't wrong.
>>152296725Wasn't that Maus?
>>152287456Because it showcases what the west offers to oppressed women in the east. The freedom to fuck up your own life. Both men and women deserve that right.
>>152300642This is inconsistent with the teachings of Islam.
Habibi was good, mythopoetic and shit. Ending was awful though. Strange how so many depictions of the East are done by white western men. Why don't the easterners create this kind of art? Is this the fatal flaw in their hearts?
>>152300773>This is inconsistent with the teachings of Islam.Yeah, but you're allowing others to fuck up your life because of false historic doctrines about magic men in the sky with magic powers.
>>152287456I suppose that might be good to explain why the Iranians are shouting, "Death to the Dictator!" right now.
Post the grandma. She was hot
>>152300642they call that the dignity of riskif you are not allowed to make bad decisions then you are not allowed to make any decisions
>>152300798>false historic doctrines about magic men in the sky with magic powers
>>152298458awman...
>>152292852post em pls
>>152300781>why don't easterners create this art>it's literally in their architecture, carpets and writing
>>152287456I'm a sucker for coming-of-age stories, so this one hit hard for me
>>152300594Yeah, but Persepolis is an autobiography and thus is deemed more important to show off on every library's GN shelf.
>>152297140Why do foriegners obsess over America so fucking much? It's unhealthy.
>>152303491Yeah but in pop culture. I get the impression that modern muslims and arabs etc don't know art.I know there are outliers, but I think the religious doctrine with them being all about not deviating from the Koran and being all haram about everything stifles creativity.
>>152298752Mmm... Bread...
>>152304904Did you ever read that Borges short story, I think it was called The Search of Averroes? In it an old Muslim scholar attempts to translate some Greek shit and just can't imagine what theatre or acting is as there was nothing in his culture to compare it to
>>152300781Historical reasons. They destroyed the great library of Alexandria because books that opposed the Koran were dangerous and books that supported the Koran were superfluous.
>>152303491A lot of that was taken from the people they conquered.
>>152287456This bitch got that one guy killed.And the movie had the balls to make that guy a pervert.
>>152290659>he would piss in his brother’s mouth where he would happily drink it up.what the fuck
>>152304784Thanks for being a perfect example of what I was talking about here >>152297140.
>>152303995>I'm a suckerYeah, no shit.
>>152307512Lool
>>152306076Damn
>>152287456Had to write a capstone essay on this in my senior year of high school. Did that shit last minute on my phone and got a D, but luckily it didn't have any real effect on my ability to pass that class. Don't even think the class was necessary for my credits to graduate as I really bummed out that year.
Hey, don't know where to ask this, and this is gonna be a shot in the dark. But someone made a post here a while ago (can't find it) recommending a comic, and I made a mental note of it at the time because I thought the art style looked unique, but forgot. I don't remember the writer, the artist, the plot, or the title. I just (vaguely) remember that the cover art they posted was mainly pink, blue, and white, and the character was cartoonish line art of a man with an ovalish head and a big nose. Sorry for the vague post, but this has been scratching at the back of my brain stem. thanks.
>>152310393FOR FUCKS SAKE. Just found it, disregard.
>>152310403Still haven't gotten around to reading this one, but it has one of the sickest covers I've ever seen
>>152287456Idk
>>152303106ok
>>152287564America is a shithole but I'm sure anon would lose his shit if a foreigner say it
>>152310403It's not bad.
>communists ruin everything and blame everyone else
>>152311544I tried reading it but the MC is so pretentious that I had to drop it. I wish the story was about Hana.
>>152313345But it's pretty much about the pretentiousness being beaten out of him by misfortune he stumbled into by being pretentious.
>>152298458why was catcher in the rye banned? it doesn't even have any sex scenes, Holden chickens out of fucking that hooker and that is close as the book gets
>>152313275>capitalists do economic hitmen, CIA death squads, genocide, false flags, school of the americas, wars for profit, encirclement, puppet dictatorships, regime change actions, then say "socialism always fails"
>>152305776... and where did the people they conquered live, anon?
>>152313106The United States is a brilliant idea, and with a few relatively simple Constitutional Amendments, it would get a lot closer to the promise of the Preamble than we've ever been.Unfortunately, those promises don't align with the entrenched "deep state," by which I mean the people who benefit from the current, deleterious status quo, and invest enormous sums of money in perpetuating the forward march of a crippled system.
>>152313275All forms of power corrupt.
>>152313037Hot
>>152287456>becoming an angry slut
>>152315463
>>152315474
>>152315478
>>152301728>She was hot Very.
>>152315488And then something lewd probably happened.Don't smoke anons, it's a bad habit.
>>152314076Oh yeah? And just would those amendments be?
>>152313037I don't remember this part from the film...
>>152287456Childhood is thinking indie comics are goodTernagehood is thinking Image, Boom and licensed stuff is indieAdulthood is realizing that indies are mostly slop just like big 2, Image, Dark Horse, Boom etc.
>>152315492She's hideous kek
>>152313106I mean yeah but the difference is Anon is still there. If I fled to another country because Ameristan sucks then it would be silly for me to get mad that someone where I moved said it did.
>>152298752It was alright, secret of the kells and Wolfwalkers are much better films imo
>>152317188Anon would still be mad. It's natural
>>152287456Did she ever reference the Iranian Hostage Crisis or Betty Mahmoody's plight?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSmbayUJCo&pp=ygUXbm90IHdpdGhvdXQgbXkgZGF1Z2h0ZXI%3D
>>152306076Why did the french faggots change it?
>>152313106America has it's issue but there isn't another nation that doesn't have far more issues. Not to mention the states are so radically different that you can basically pick the one that best fits your needs without having to expatriate.
>>152294276Its unfilmable. If you take out the internal monologue, it's a story of a kid walking around a city. If you leave in the internal monologue, it doesn't work as a movie.
>>152287456It's kinda crap.
>>152319659Why
>>152318187>If you take out the internal monologue, it's a story of a kid walking around a city. If you leave in the internal monologue, it doesn't work as a movie.One of the best movies ever made is about a kid walking around in the city with narrated internal monologue
>>152313982>NO U
>>152315474A carton is 10 packs. He's giving her 20 packs.
>>152318053Feminism.
>>152313982>He thinks the Soviet Union wasn't doing the exact same things
Y si traicionamos a Goku y lo encerramos en la habitacion del tiempo.
>>152319659How come?
>>152287456did anyone here actually read the other books she wrote that were based on her experiences in Iran, post-Persepolis?
>>152323210I haven't.
>>152287557trueshame her Swedish husband died recently
>>152323210I read Chicken with Plums a long time ago. I remember liking it so much, I gave a copy to my sister. She looked really confused, like she didn’t understand why I’d give her something like that. I do not remember much about the actual story.
>>152306076Just wipe it on a napkin you stupid bitch>nah I'll instead send this random innocent man to some uncharted death camp adventure
>>152315488Ah, don't smoke. Got it.
>>152287456>Falsely accuse a guy of rape and gets him killed
>>152326161boohoo what a tragedy
>>152326178Yes it is, you fucking sociopath
>>152326201cry me a river
>>152306101Maybe I’m misremembering but I clearly remember the main character pissing in his brother’s mouth, I read it more than 10 years ago.
>islam is le bad because I can’t be a slutFucking hated this shit
>>152326424She never said that.
>>152326161>Falsely accuse a guyAnd her family immediately calls her out on it, and she immediately realizes how shameful it was.>of rape and gets him killedYou imagined this part.
>>152326424Muslim women are the biggest sluts. Their men have to cover them up because they are gay.
>>152327191Why are Muslim men so gay??
>>152318107>Not to mention the states are so radically differentyou say that like that isn't the core part of this country's problem, that we are a federation of a bunch of wildly incompatible places that would be better off being their own countries. There is no reason the rest of the country should be forced to support Alabama and Mississippi.
>>152327877So this is what he was talking about.
>>152313106>America is a shitholeFuck you, Muhammad
>>152306076She literally admits she's just a man-hating bitch. Poor guy.
The movie was better.Semi related but the writer of the comic wrote a movie where Ryan Reynolds plays a schizo incel whos pets tell him to kill foids, it's pretty funny
She always felt like she would end up a lesbian. I was surprised when she didn't.
>>152328355the biggest man-haters are the ones who can't stand how much they desire men
>>152328030Why did she not focus more on Spider Habibi here? Was she stupid?
>>152287456Because she's a deluded leftist. Same as Maus. These people are evil, they supproted these politics all the way, then when the chickens come home to roost they cry and flee and bring the exact same politics to the country they fled from. They'll never learn. They just destroy, and destroy, and destroy. And they get leftist awards for it. Fuck them.
>>152287456You're American and therefore too stupid to understand non-American matters.
>>152287594Based and truepilled>>152290158Virgin cuck
>>152287456
>>152290158Being misogynist is actually a good thing, feminist faggot.
>>152287910>then I got in a pee fight with my brother
>>152304724Libraries barely have shelves at all anymore, let alone GN ones.Everything fucking sucks.
>>152330112Redpilled
>>152313868It's got swearing back when Young Adult fiction didn't have any swear words period and Holden's "phonies" rantings was terrifying to adults for being disrespectful to authority long before people started to murder celebrities because of it
>>152328013You say that as if the states with the most debt aren't mostly blue.
>>152287456>angry arab girl
>>152328412Yeah I had hoped for a bisexual threesome at least.
>>152324820why did you like it so much and why didn't she?
>>152330668was that on the table or was that something I missed in a sequel?
>>152330657Angry women are just massive foids in general
>>152328565>Same as Maus.How so?
>>152330532A handful of blue states have higher than average debt. That totally makes me forget that the South ranks dead last in education, life expectancy, healthcare quality and earning potential. You retards really have to reach to the most obscure graphs because in all of the metrics that matter most conservative states are objective shitholes.
>>152331684No one tell this guy California ranks alongside Alabama in terms of education quality.
>>152287456It's barely a comic, yes. Aya of Yop City and Arabs of the Future completely own it in that regarding.
>>152330157God that was stupid. I think he might’ve misremembered the timeline, because it makes more sense, to me at least, for kids to do that if they were diddled beforehand. I guess kids can be really fucking stupid sometimes but that was a level just a little beyond what I expect.
>>152330971I dunno if she disliked it. I dunno if she ever even got around to reading it. But in hindsight, it wasn’t really her thing the way I thought it was. The kinda comics she would read were usually not so highbrow and pretentious. And I literally can’t remember hardly anything about it, so I’m not sure why I liked it. I think I sorta remember it was probably really depressing, so that’d make sense because I like tragic shit, especially back then.
>>152328565>Same as MausMaus was just kind of a matter of fact story about a shitty person that is acknowledged as shitty in the narrative. Persepolis isn't really like that.
>>152328565bro needs to take a chill pill
>>152287456>persepolis sounds Greek
>>152334835You're correct
>>152320902based kinofile
>>152334968Oh cool!
>>152315488Goddamnit anons please tell me where to find the full comic all of the links turn up nothing
>>152316361>Adulthood is realizing that indies are mostly slopAll media of all types is mostly slop, that's why people ask each other for recommendations rather than buying shit at random
Why are you all muslims, though?
>>152287456>angry arab girlShe's persian.
