Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi is french comic book artist and writer who was raised in Iran after being born there in 1969.
She started her body of work after moving to France in 1994. While there she began work on her best known pieces which became the graphic novels of Persepolis (parts 1 and 2 in the U.S. versions). It is said that her visual style is culled in part from the artwork of her husband Pierre-François Beauchard (a.k.a.'David B.) It is also theorized that that her style is not completely unlike that of Art Speigelman ( author of the famous graphic novel Maus). Satrapi is unique in aspect thought and that is she produced the first comic book from the strictly Iranian perspective. Growing up in Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini and the extreme oppression that came along with it has forged a very unparalleled view of the world. Her characters (which are largely auto-biographical) have a strange familiarity to them which stems from (in my opinion) the subtly rounded and generic quality of the lines with which she executes her drawing. Satrapi has encountered a fair degree of success including having Persepolis made into a feature length animated film in 2007. Currently another film is in the works as she is taking part in the production of Chicken with Plums ( another one of her graphic novels)due to be released in 2011.
For the the time being Satrapi still lives in France with her husband and works on children s books for the most part.