Article: A NEW PICTURE OF IRAN MARJANE SATRAPI DRAWS FROM EXPERIENCE IN `PERSEPOLIS' COMIC BOOKS.(U)

Byline: David Kronke Staff Writer

For someone who didn't grow up with comic books, Marjane Satrapi has proven a quick learn. Satrapi, who has followed up her best-selling, critically acclaimed ``Persepolis'' with ``Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return'' (Pantheon; $17.95), has essayed her youth in Iran - and, in her latest book, her years of rudderless rebellion in Vienna, followed by a return to an Iran that, despite the end of a revolution and a war against Iraq, is no less oppressive - with two graphic novels that are by turns chilling, heartbreaking and caustically funny.

Steven Seagle, the Altadena-based author of the much-lauded graphic novel ...

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