My Hot Date is the Ignatz award-winning (2016, Outstanding Story) short comic telling the true story of author Noah Van Sciver’s first date as a 14 year old kid growing up in the suburbs of Arizona. The artwork is amazingly colorful and fun, and the dialogue and look help to capture the feelings and attitude of the time both in society and in a young boys life. Continue reading “My Hot Date”
The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis collects the two English translated works of Marjane Satrapi (published as four separate works in their original French) chronicling her childhood to her years at school abroad (Persepolis 1) and her return to her home in Iran (Persepolis 2). The novel reads as a series of vignettes detailing important moments in Satrapi’s life as an Iranian growing up in Iran and Vienna during the Islamic Revolution. Continue reading “The Complete Persepolis”