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...marriage for girls lowered to nine?is almost too full of trauma to be confined to a prose narrative. Satrapi powerfully captures the Ayatollahs' tyranny by rendering it in the spare, black- and-white images of a graphic novel, much as Art Spiegelman did in Maus, his comic-strip version of the Holocaust...
...Pekar: I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that...
Harvey Pekar - blue-collar scholar, retired file clerk, television celebrity, journalist, observer of life and creator of the 25 year-old comic series "American Splendor" - can now add "movie star" to his c.v. "American Splendor" started in 1976 as a self-published autobiographical comic book that chronicled the author's living and working in Cleveland. Disarmingly low-key and driven mostly by the working-class intellectual author's irascible but entertaining personality, "American Splendor" uses a medium associated mostly with sensational escapism for odes on the frustrations, triumphs and mundanities of ordinary life...
...movie adaptation starring Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis opens next week and may be the most ambitious film adaptation of a comic ever attempted. Co-directors and script-writers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini combine re-enactments with animation and documentary footage of the real people being played in the movie - including Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner - sometimes putting the actors and their real-life counterparts in the same frame. Giamatti gives a hilariously simian characterization of Pekar as he struggles to find meaning in his life. Essentially a story about the redemptive power of art, Pekar...
...TIME.comix: That would seem kind of prohibitive to your actually starting your own comic...