While it does nothing wholly original, Koira achieves exactly what it sets out to do: tell an emotional tale and build a ...

Throughout cinema's history, many films have been made based on real-life events. They took inspiration from true stories and brought them to the screen in compelling ways.

Comic Arts Maine Portland is a free festival at the Portland Public Library. Poster by Karen Czap When the organizers of a ...

So You Haven't Read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? This comic is about growing up in Iran during the tumultuous 1980s and the Islamic Revolution. Following the author's real-life events and ...

The fact that Jerry’s prospective victims are all women might well have tipped the movie into smirky grotesquerie if not for the direction of Perseoplis creator Marjane Satrapi, who gives the ...

It seems like comic book movie rarely get any attention at the Oscars, but although very few have been nominated for the so-called "big awards," dozens of comic book adaptations have been ...

It is in these passages that her saga holds the high-lo glitz and gutter appeal of the best immigrant epics such as Marjane Satrapi’s chronicles. All in all, I mourned the end of this universe ...

Art Spiegelman. (Zipatone/Cargo Film & Releasing) “Maus” was a massive literary success, which helped usher in a golden era for graphic novels that inspired the work of many others, like Marjane ...

FILE - Amanda Darrow from the Utah Pride Center poses with books that have frequently been the subject of book bans and challenges in this December 2021 file photo in Salt Lake City. The number of ...