First of all I would like to say that I really enjoyed reading Fiona‘s blog post about the comparison of art works and positions of Marjane Satrapi and Joe Sacco regarding the stories that are telling.

I agree with Fiona’s argument about the comparison  of the drawings done by Satrapi and Sacco, which show the difference in perspectives. By being an outsider, as Joe Sacco is in his graphic novel, it is relative easier to draw in a more realistically and with more details since he does not have strong connections and feelings towards those people. Meanwhile for Satrapi, who is considered  an eye witness, it is almost impossible represent in as accurate details as Sacco did, people that knew really well because they lived in the same city as hers.

To her argument I would add another difference in the two novels that I found very interesting and that I discovered during one of our discussions in our Astu 100 class. While reading Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, it seems that we are with Marji, and more specifically, we are looking at the events from Marji’s eyes. Which is completely different from the way in which Sacco makes us feel part of the story. In his graphic novel, Safe Area Gorazde, he uses his presence to mirror the events that are explained to him from the people that he interviews in order for us to understand what is happening.