On Friday before the winter holidays, the G11 class visited an exhibition at the St. Foy library.
The purpose of this exhibition was to showcase enlarged drawings from the new comic book compiled by Marjane Satrapi, a famous Iranian cartoonist and film director, best known for her autobiographical graphic novel about the Iranian Revolution of the 1980s. This book is studied in IB English A: Literature and Language and Literature. Its original language, however, is French.
In this new book, Satrapi invites several cartoonists to illustrate themes related to the recent social and feminist movement “Femme, Vie, Liberté,” which began after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.
The students found the exhibition both engaging and educational, as comics convey messages without the shock factor of photographs while being more direct and self-explanatory than words alone.
We will use the material for further studies in class, and the book will soon be available in the library.




