It is October 1960, and two young Francophile artists, Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voorman, discover a fantastic band from England playing in one of the roughest corners of Hamburg’s red light district. Although admittedly less far-reaching or political in its scope, Bellstorf’s work makes similarly evocative use of a deceptively simple drawing style, using black and white line drawings with occasionally rough pencil shading. If, as it did for me, Persepolis whetted your appetite for the graphic novel genre, add Arne Bellstorf’s Baby’s in Black (tr. With simple but evocative black and white drawings, Persepolis is by turns fascinating, heart-wrenching and hilarious and became a worldwide success. The tale came to wider attention when it was adapted into a 2007 movie, and both book (translated from French by Blake Ferris, Mattias Ripa and Anjali Singh) and film tell of author Marjane Satrapi’s coming-of-age during the Iranian revolution. Persepolis was probably my first introduction to graphic novels.
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