Graphic events

Tonight there’s a special screening of Persepolis at Landmark. Get passes wherever you usually pick up free screening passes. Probably Movies Worth Seeing. However, the film opens officially in Atlanta tomorrow, so it might be worth it to avoid all the anxiety of a free screening and just see it a day later for $8.

Here’s an interview with the kickass Marjane Sartrapi, author/illustrator/director of Persepolis. Sartrapi on her film being banned in Iran:

Oh, no. Of course it’s not going to be shown there. But, you know, it’s like everything else in Iran. They say something isn’t supposed to be seen, and then everybody sees it. It’s like how alcohol is forbidden, but everybody drinks. This is the way we are. As soon as we’re told not to do something, it’s all we want to do.

On Tuesday, February 5, SCAD hosts artist/illustrator Art Spiegelman for a free lecture. According to the SCAD website,

In this talk, Spiegelman will trace the history of cartoons from Hogarth to R. Crumb and will consider what he calls “forbidden images,” inspired by the commotion raised over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad in early 2007. He believes that in our post-literate culture the importance of the comic is on the rise, as “comics echo the way our brain works.”

7:30 PM, Free (as is parking), 1600 Peachtree Street

Both Spiegelman and Sartrapi’s works can be found on the fantastic Pantheon Graphic Novel imprint, via your favorite independent bookstore.