Book review: “The Complete Persepolis”

This comic book is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran. The fact that she chose to tell her story and give us glimpses into a life, a time, and a world that probably feels foreign to many of us is itself already something remarkable. And she told it with

Book review: “Speak: The Graphic Novel”

I had read “Speak” the original novel before, and upon knowing that it would be adapted into a graphic novel, I was very looking forward to reading this version. The story of “Speak” really moved me the first time I read it, and it was so touching to experience this story again, this time with

Book review: “The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel”

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” I finished reading this book in less than two hours. Being a big fan of the original novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” myself, I cannot help but appreciate how this graphic novel brought Offred’s haunting story to life. The harsh, inhumane, and dehumanizing world of the

Book review: “Watchmen”

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.Who watches the Watchmen?” I have known this amazing and brilliant graphic novel for a long time, but did not really understand what it was about. Now I finally got the chance to read the complete version of it, and I must say, “Watchmen” clearly deserves to be the most celebrated graphic