Persepolis's drawing looks like little kid's drawings with about everyone having oval face and oval eyes. It's simple, but it still captures the emotions of the characters. Although the drawing feels like kiddie drawing, but the shadings of them feels kind of "dark"? For most comic I've seen, characters' cloth usually have some kind of shades to them, but in Persepolis, each part of clothing is either white or black, there is no gray zone, and same goes with background's shade. I guess it goes into the simple style of it. Yet even though they look so simple, they feel so detailed, and sometimes can't help but forgetting the story and keep staring at those drawings; in page 56, the face of Anoosh's mother, and in page 63, with Marjane lying on the ground, those drawings feel like horror graphic type. Maybe the author picked this style to show how war feels like? But nlike Maus, I can't seem to continue reading this book for chapter and chapters non-stop. Maybe it's the drawing style of it that makes me feel irritated, or could be the story...and those are just my personal feelings toward this book.
PS: page 102 makes me go "what the hell?!?"
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I feel the same way about this book. I’m not a big fan of the purely black and white drawings and I kind of feel like everything just blends together. There is nothing that really sets the characters apart from each other, and at times I have to flip back a few pages just to remember the character’s name.
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