Animation and comics are false siblings. They resemble one another but they’re two completely different things. The relationship a reader has with a comic is nothing like the one a viewer has with a film. When you read a comic, you’re always active, because you have to imagine all the movements that happen between the frames. In a film, you are passive: all the information is there. And when you make a comic it never happens that you have 500 or 1,000 people reading it in the same place at the same time, all reacting.Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persopolis, talks about how she found success in adapting her acclaimed two-part graphic novel into an animated feature.
Bonus tip: cast Iggy Pop.
(Via Mayerson on Animation)
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Marjane Satrapi on Adapting Comics for Animation