Graphic novels and how they’ve changed for me
The theme in my ASTU 100A is memory and trauma, and we have been and will be looking at novels and some graphic novels. We’ve recently read the graphic novels, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco which is a journalistic comic book- both are about historic conflicts. Satrapi shows to her readers about her experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran as a child and Joe Sacco portrays the Bosnian War through the narrations of a first hand witness. I found it interesting when we compared them in class…read more