graphic novels

In the graphic novel ‘They Called Us Enemy,’ famed “Star Trek” star George Takei — along with co-writers Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott plus artist Harmony Becker — retells his story of being interned in U.S. concentration camps with other Japanese Americans during World War II.

Persepolis is a autobiographical graphic novel written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian-French cartoonist. It tells the tale of Marji, a young girl living in Tehran just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. This accounts her life before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution, where she lives through threats to her wellbeing and xenophobia.