Satrapi also admires Daniel Clowes, who draws the "Ghost World" series, and says she's in awe of former San Franciscan Robert Crumb. Inspiration came from Art Spiegelman's "Maus," the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel of the Holocaust. I have never directed a film, but I didn't know how to make comics before doing it, either. "Also, I am a little bit of a dictator myself, you know. "I cannot just give it away," Satrapi says in a voice charged with energy. But when Satrapi considered the possibility of watered-down, trivialized Hollywood schlock - and started to visualize Jennifer Lopez playing her in a maghneah (head scarf) - she insisted on taking the reins herself. Initially, there were proposals to turn "Persepolis" into a live-action comedy. Critics poured praise on both books, sales are brisk for the second one, and Satrapi, who lives in the Marais district of Paris with her Swedish husband of eight years, plans to direct an animated-film version of the two volumes. Satrapi illustrated "Persepolis 2" in simple black-and-white drawings that recall Little Lulu comic books. Instead of "reducing (Iran) to an abstract notion," she brings it to life through the specifics of her life and a tart, rebellious point of view.
"I wanted to tell the story from the inside, not to be analytical," said Satrapi, 34, during her recent U.S.
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