Satrapi has credited David B., her friend and fellow member of L'Association, with showing her the form: his autobiographical Epileptic, drawn in heavy black and white with symbolic imagery, is the model for the look of Persepolis.
Comic· 1996· Nonfiction
L'Ascension du Haut Mal (Epileptic)
by David B.
L'Ascension du Haut Mal (Epileptic): 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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- Chronic illness
David B.'s autobiographical comic about growing up with an older brother whose severe epilepsy shaped the whole family, and their search through macrobiotics, communes and spiritualists for a cure.