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I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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