A Sense of Doubt blog post #4130 - Afterlife "Breather" - SoD Reprint of #3030 from 2023 - Music Monday

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4130 - Afterlife "Breather" - SoD Reprint of #3030 from 2023 - Music Monday

The other day as I contemplated my blog vacation, Facebook showed me memories from June 5th and 6th in past years, and since most of my posts are for my blog, it was list of old blog posts that I could reprint in low power mode.

Forgot about this song and this artist.

Great stuff.

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LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

BLOG VACATION #1 - 2026 - Taking a blog vacation for a couple of weeks, until at least June 26th, 2026. Mostly reprints. A few simple shares (not that simple shares are out of the norm) and THAT ONE THING. Need time for other things.

Link to the original post I am reprinting below:

Monday, June 5, 2023

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3030 - Afterlife - "Breather" - Music Monday for June 5th, 2023

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3030 - Afterlife - "Breather" - Music Monday for June 5th, 2023

Welcome to Music Monday for June 05, 2023 also written as 2306.05.

Music featured today comes from British electronic music producer Stephen Miller, aka Afterlife. Today's song "Breather" appeared on the album Simplicity Two Thousand, released in the year 2000 (duh).

This Afterlife is not to be confused with a metal band called Afterlife or a record label of the same name.

I came across this song the other day listening to a compilation by Phobos while randomly perusing my iTunes catalog.

It's the mood, it's the vibe, it's today's Music Monday song.

Thanks for tuning in.

AFTERLIFE - BREATHER (ORIGINAL MIX) Official Video HD

Subatomic UK

Lyrics

Now I took what I want

But you find it

Everything has gone

Follows to my shadow

You wont follow in my plateau

I look into the sky

You try to catch me

I follow into the sky

You where once there

Now your not there

I went peace

Please

Do you feel me

When you swallow

Catch me down and i am

Breathing...

Breathing...

Scatting

As I swallow

Catch my eye

Seeing places far behind

In your city it fills me up

Clouds are falling to

Yeah I couldnt stop

I couldnt stop

I couldnt stop

Falling...

But i couldnt stop

I couldn't...

I follow shadows

Fill me up

Fill me up

Oh no no

Fill me up

Fill me up

Breathing...

Breathing...

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Erik Wolkoff / Marius Hansen / Rachel Ann Lloyd / Steven Gordon Miller

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2306.05 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2894 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2606.08 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3994 days ago & DAD = 648 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4129 - SoD Reprint of #3029 from 2023 Cover Gallery for Comic Book Sunday

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4129 - SoD Reprint of #3029 from 2023 Cover Gallery for Comic Book Sunday

Reprint today for blog vacation.

Thanks for tuning in!

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

BLOG VACATION #1 - 2026 - Taking a blog vacation for a couple of weeks, until at least June 26th, 2026. Mostly reprints. A few simple shares (not that simple shares are out of the norm) and THAT ONE THING. Need time for other things.

Link to the Original Post reprinted below:

Sunday, June 4, 2023

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3029 - Cover Gallery for Comic Book Sunday June 4th, 2023

BatGirl 66 Elsa Charretier

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3029 - Cover Gallery for Comic Book Sunday June 4th, 2023

Another cover gallery for Comic Book Sunday with a few images that are not covers, like the above, which is a Batgirl image for issue #66 by Love Everlasting artist Elsa Charretier.

I had wanted to write about Supergirl: Being Super, which is an incredible graphic novel, a four-issue series, but that review and send-up will have to wait for another day. I need to get a post up and try to keep close to my established schedule.

Here's a bunch of images that are loitering in my downloads folder (which is not called downloads).

New Captain America that will be written by JMS

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2606.07 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3993 days ago & DAD = 647 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4128 - Anthony Stewart Head RIP

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4128 - Anthony Stewart Head RIP


Another actor from Buffy the Vampire Slayer has died. What's going on?

Thanks for tuning in.

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

BLOG VACATION #1 - 2026 - Taking a blog vacation for a couple of weeks, until at least June 26th, 2026. Mostly reprints. A few simple shares (not that simple shares are out of the norm) and THAT ONE THING. Need time for other things.

https://ew.com/anthony-head-dies-buffy-ted-lasso-star-11991985

Anthony Head, Buffy and Ted Lasso star, dies at 72

The actor died due to complications from pnemonia, according to his daughters.

By Tiffany Kelly

Tiffany Kelly is a staff editor at Entertainment Weekly. She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Wired, GQ, and Ars Technica.

June 5, 2026 12:06 p.m. ET

Anthony Head, known for playing Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died at 72. The news was confirmed by his family members, who shared a statement to media outlets.

"He passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family," Head's daughters, Emily and Daisy, said in a statement shared with the BBC.

"It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many," they added.

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to Head's reps for additional comment.

Born on Feb. 20, 1954, in Camden Town, London, Head grew up in a family that worked in the entertainment industry. His father, Seafield Laurence Stewart Murray Head, was a documentary filmmaker, and his mother, Helen Shingler, was a film and TV actress. His brother, Murray Head, is also an actor and singer. Head began his career by acting in several musicals, including a West End revival of The Rocky Horror Show in 1990, in which he played Frank N. Furter.

His big break came in 1997 when he took on the role of Rupert Giles on Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, which is based on Whedon's 1992 film of the same name. While working as the librarian at her school, Giles becomes a mentor to Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) as her Watcher. The show ran for seven seasons, but Head was only a guest star in the last two seasons.

In 2020, Head started recurring on Apple TV's Ted Lasso, as Rupert Mannion, the ex-husband of Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham). Bill Lawrence told EW at the time that naming the character Rupert, like his Buffy character, was a coincidence.

"We thought he would be great, playing a little against type as a truly villainous, reprehensible character that you would still believe could charm people," Lawrence said.

Head also appeared on several other TV shows throughout his career, including Merlin, Motherland, and Jack Ryan. His last credited film role was in the 2024 Prime Video rom-com Upgraded.

Sarah Fisher, Head's longtime partner and the mother of the couple's daughters, died in December 2025.

The Buffy cast has been hit with a wave of tragedies over the past couple of years. Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander on the supernatural drama, died in March at 54. Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Buffy's sister Dawn, died in February 2025 at 39.

"This business is very tough, and we've had — it feels like we've had more tragedy than other shows," Gellar said at an event earlier this year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/arts/television/anthony-head-dead.html

Anthony Head, Buffy’s Watcher and a ‘Ted Lasso’ Heel, Dies at 72

The British actor was a mainstay of influential television shows who first found fame as a Nescafe pitchman.

By Sopan Deb

June 5, 2026

Anthony Head, the British actor who rose from the smooth 1980s pitchman for Nescafe Gold Blend instant coffee to become a mainstay performer on influential television shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died. He was 72.

The cause was “complications due to pneumonia,” his daughters, the actresses Emily Head and Daisy Head, said in a statement released to the BBC on Friday. The statement did not say where or when he died.

Mr. Head’s breakout came when he was cast as Rupert Giles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” the unexpected supernatural hit starring Sarah Michelle Gellar that ran from 1997 to 2003.

 

In the show, Giles was the fussy librarian at Sunnydale High School. But his real job was as Buffy’s “watcher,” appointed by a mysterious council to guide the young vampire slayer.

 

While auditioning for “Buffy,” Mr. Head pitched playing the role with the persona of Hugh Grant’s character in “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” Prince Charles or as Alan Rickman “in his more decisive moments,” Mr. Head said in a 2001 interview with The Evening Standard. Joss Whedon, the show’s creator, liked all of the ideas — so Giles became a combination of the three.

The nebbishy charm of the performance endeared Mr. Head to audiences.

“It opened the door to work internationally,” Mr. Head told the British tabloid Metro in 2013.

The coming decades would allow Mr. Head to show a wide range of performing abilities. That included a Tony Blair-inspired prime minister on the comedy series “Little Britain.” In one episode, Mr. Head wore a black pouch and wielded a feather duster.

“I did feel sorry for my children because they had to go into school the next day,” Mr. Head said in an interview with The Guardian in 2008.

 

Mr. Head noted the difference between the parts to Metro.

“They couldn’t be more different but it kept people guessing,” he said. “You can very easily get pigeonholed in this business. It afforded me massive amounts of choice in terms of what I’m asked to do.”

Additional roles included Uther Pendragon on “Merlin,” David Whele in the science fiction show “Dominion” and Lord Sheffield on an episode of “Bridgerton.”

The most high profile recent role came when he landed a part on “Ted Lasso,” the Apple TV comedy that won legions of fans during the height of the pandemic. Mr. Head played the recurring character of Rupert Mannion, the smarmy former owner of A.F.C. Richmond, who lost the team to his ex-wife in a divorce.

 

Late in his career, Mr. Head played Rupert Mannion, the smarmy former owner of the fictional English professional soccer team AFC Richmond, in the series “Ted Lasso.”Credit...Colin Hutton/Apple TV

“He’s a particularly unpleasant character and a complete narcissist, but you know where he’s coming from,” Mr. Head told The Guardian in 2021. “To make somebody believable, you have to see their point of view. You don’t need to like them, but you have to be on board with what’s driving them.”

Anthony Stewart Head was born on Feb. 20, 1954, in London. His mother, Helen Shingler, was best known for portraying Madame Maigret in the BBC detective series “Maigret” from 1960 to 1963. His father, Seafield Head, was a documentary filmmaker.

“People think that must have made it easier for me to become an actor, but actually, that’s nonsense,” Mr. Head told The Guardian in 2016. “My mother said, ‘Well, if you must.’ And my father said I needed to have a second string to my bow, so if I didn’t succeed at acting, I’d have something else I could do. Bless his heart, he was fairly controlling.”

His father did hire him to be an assistant editor on some projects as a teenager. Working in cutting rooms, Mr. Head recalled to The Guardian in 2021, “was fascinating.”

This is partly what led Mr. Head to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. One of his most formative experiences, he said, was seeing Tim Curry in the musical “The Rocky Horror Show” while in drama school as a teenager. He told The Guardian that it “ignited something in my core.”

“I knew I had acting in my blood because of my mother. Now I couldn’t wait to finish drama school and try to make it in the real world,” Mr. Head recalled.

Early in his career, Mr. Head starred in a West End revival of the musical “Godspell” in 1978, which led to bit parts in television shows.

But in the mid-1980s Mr. Head won fans for several years as the centerpiece of a campaign by the instant coffee brand Nescafe, alongside the actress Sharon Maughan. He recalled that role, at first, may have stopped him getting more satisfying acting parts.

 

“I don’t think I was tainted by it but my agent did say someone had said: ‘This is a serious drama. We don’t want people reaching for their coffee jars,’” Mr. Head told The Guardian in 2001. “But America is less snobbish about commercials.”

His brother is the actor Murray Head, who played Bob Elkin in the 1971 Oscar-nominated film “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”

Mr. Head’s longtime partner, Sarah Fisher, an animal-rights activist, died last year. Both of their daughters, Emily Head and Daisy Head, are also actors. In the 2008 mini-series “The Invisibles,” Mr. Head performed alongside Emily, his eldest daughter.

“For an actor it’s a real joy for the emotions you are feeling to be real. You are not having to think,” Mr. Head recalled to The Guardian in the 2008 interview. “I’ve got these great scenes when Emily starts to twig who I am. I’d look into her eyes and I’d start to well up.”

 Gold Blend compilation

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2606.06 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3992 days ago & DAD = 646 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4127 - SoD Reprint of #3762 from 2025 - Inclusion Matters; Choose Love

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4127 - SoD Reprint of #3762 from 2025 - Inclusion Matters; Choose Love

First day of Blog Vacation 2026!

This image needs to be re-posted regularly.

Thanks for tuning in.

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

BLOG VACATION #1 - 2026 - Taking a blog vacation for a couple of weeks, until at least June 26th, 2026. Mostly reprints. A few simple shares (not that simple shares are out of the norm) and THAT ONE THING. Need time for other things.

Link to the original post I am reprinting below.

Friday, June 6, 2025

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3762 - Inclusion Matters; Choose Love

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3762 - Inclusion Matters; Choose Love

Just this.

Image says it all.

This is THAT ONE THING for Friday June 6th, 2025.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2506.06 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3627 days ago & DAD = 280 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2606.05 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3991 days ago & DAD = 645 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4126 - Letter to Dad #38 - Marjane Satrapi RIP and BLOG VACATION

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4126 - Letter to Dad #38 - Marjane Satrapi RIP and BLOG VACATION

Hi Big Guy, Couple of things today. More than two.

Yesterday (in reality Saturday June 6th as I am behind again), Facebook showed me a memory from this date in 2024, and I realized that this is one of the last comments by you as you would be dead just a little over two months past this date.

I may need to collect more of these.

Second thing, below, testament to the great Marjane Satrapi who passed away today (today as in the date published, Thursday June 4, 2026).

I also shared two of my posts on Satrapi's Persepolis, a book I taught a few times.

Third thing.

Time for a blog vacation in which I enter low power mode and mostly do reprints for at least two weeks, maybe longer. I will mix in some simple shares and THAT ONE THING, too.

Right now I may come out of blog vacation on your birthday, June 26th, which will be a Friday installment of this weekly letter.

I may skip letters to you until then as well as other features, definitely Writing Wednesday.

I need to get things done, so putting blog in vacation mode.

FOURTH THING - Ellory

Had to take Ellory to the ER vet Friday night because she ate a grape, ONE grape. Ellory is the middle child. She’s a black lab and 9 and a half years old. It happened right before our vet (not ER) closed and so I managed to call and get advice. They told me to take her to the ER to induce vomiting. At the ER vet, they referred me to some toxicology/poison hot line to analyze the situation and pay a consulting fee. Then they also talk with the ER people. In the end, they chose to save me some money and not induce vomiting because it was just one grape, and shed have to eat three or more to be in danger of toxic effects (renal failure). I also learned that we had six hours to induce vomiting, but I got her there in a little over an hour. I am just kicking myself. That grape drops on the floor, and I am reaching for it when Ellory hoovers it up. I feared that was a bad thing and quickly Googled to be reminded of just how toxic grapes are for dogs. Scary. She spit up a small amount of saliva Saturday morning but other than that her poop is normal, her water intake is normal, her peeing is normal, and her appetite is the usual out of control ravenous! I was probably over-cautious but also we dodged a much worse outcome.

Neither of these pictures is from the ER vet on Friday June 5th.

2511.19

June 7 2024

Love you Dad!

Maybe more next week.

Or on the 26th.

Love,

Christopher

TWO Persepolis posts:

Friday, March 25, 2022

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2593 - Persepolis dropped from Pennsylvania English curriculum

Saturday, April 1, 2023

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2965 - The Personal versus The Political in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Series

Marjane Satrapi in 2023. She was one of the best-known exponents of a form of graphic novel that combined political history and memoir.Credit...Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA, via Shutterstock

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/world/middleeast/marjane-satrapi-dead.html

By Amelia Nierenberg and Ségolène Le Stradic

Reporting from London and Paris

June 4, 2026

Updated 1:04 p.m. ET

Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” introduced millions of readers to the struggles of ordinary Iranians during the turbulent years around the Islamic Revolution, has died at 56.

The office of President Emmanuel Macron of France announced her death in a statement on Thursday, but did not specify where, when or how she died.

“Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure in French culture and a freedom-loving artist whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim,” the statement said.

With the publication of “Persepolis” in the early 2000s, Ms. Satrapi became one of the best-known exponents of a form of graphic novel — influenced by Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” — that combined political history and memoir.

The protagonist, Marji, was depicted living through some of the most difficult years of Iranian history, closely mirroring Ms. Satrapi’s own life.

Both author and character were born in Iran in 1969. Both were about 10 when the Shah was overthrown. Both lived through the rise of the clerics and the horror of the Iran-Iraq War, and both left the country at 14 to study in Austria.

In 1994, Ms. Satrapi moved to Paris, where she wrote the “Persepolis” series. The books were published in France from 2000 to 2003; the first volume of an English translation was published in 2003, and the second volume was released a year later.

Millions of readers bought the books, which became a popular school assignment and among the widest-read works to explore the interior lives of modern Iranians. The series was adapted into a 2007 film that was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature.

 

“Persepolis,” the author Fernanda Eberstadt wrote in a New York Times review of the book, “dances with drama and insouciant wit,” its inky black-and-white drawings modeled on contemporary comics and Persian miniatures.

Not quite two decades later, Ms. Satrapi set to work documenting another tumultuous moment in Iranian history: the unrest in 2022 that followed the death, in police custody, of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who had been detained and accused of violating a law requiring women to wear the hijab in public.

In protest, women across Iran tore off their veils, in one of the most significant cultural and political moments in the country since the 1979 revolution.

Ms. Satrapi’s work on the subject culminated in 2024 with the release of “Woman, Life, Freedom,” another work of graphic nonfiction. She contributed some drawings, but told The Times that she was more of a “director” of the project, which also featured work by other artists, activists, academics and journalists.

“Even basic human rights, they deny us,” she said of the Iranian government after the book was released. “You don’t have the right to dance, you don’t have the right to sing, you don’t have the right to do this, you don’t have the right to do that.”

Marjane Satrapi was born on Nov. 22, 1969, in Rasht, near the Caspian Sea, and grew up in Tehran. She had aristocratic ancestors, and her parents were cosmopolitan leftists; her father was an engineer and her mother designed dresses.

They opposed the Shah and protested against his government, but were disillusioned by the political and cultural crackdown that followed the revolution and the end of his rule. Marjane’s uncle was accused of being a Soviet spy, jailed and executed.

Marjane bridled against the new restrictions on dress and behavior. When she was 14, she hit a school principal who had tried to confiscate her jewelry, and her parents, worried for her safety, sent her to live with an Iranian family in Austria. There, she was overwhelmed by the experience of a very different world.

“At her nadir,” Simon Hattenstone wrote in The Guardian in 2008, “she was peddling drugs, homeless, and she almost died from bronchitis. After four years in Vienna, she admitted defeat, put on her veil and returned home.”

Back in Iran in 1989, she studied art in Tehran and had an early marriage that ended in divorce, then returned to Europe.

“Probably I left Iran because I was not brave enough,” she told The Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2003. “I just needed to have more social freedom to be able to do my work.”

She got a second art degree in Strasbourg, France, before moving to Paris.

“I like living there because I can smoke everywhere, but it is going to change,” she said in 2007, around the time that smoking was banned in many public spaces in France. (Two years before, she had published an illustrated ode to smoking in The Times.)

Maybe, she mused, she would move to Greece, which had yet to introduce such stringent smoking restrictions.

Her husband, Mattias Ripa, who helped translate “Persepolis” into English, died last year. A list of her survivors was not immediately available.

Ms. Satrapi wrote several children’s books and other graphic novels, including “Chicken With Plums,” the story of the death of her great-uncle, which was also turned into a film. Another of her works, “Embroideries,” depicted Iranian women discussing love, sex and men over afternoon tea.

She directed several feature films, including “The Voices” (2014), with Ryan Reynolds, and “Radioactive” (2019), starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie.

She also won acclaim as a painter and was elected in 2024 to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, one of the highest honors in the French art world.

Though she created some of the best-known works in the graphic novel genre, Ms. Satrapi told The Times in 2007 that she never liked the category’s name.

“I think they made up this term for the bourgeoisie not to be scared of comics,” she said. “Like, ‘Oh, this is the kind of comics you can read.’”

She wrote frequently about her perpetual sense of dislocation — living away from her home country, but thinking constantly of it.

“I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word ‘home’ has only one meaning: Iran,” Ms. Satrapi wrote in a 2009 essay for The Times.

“No matter how much I am in love with Paris and its indescribable beauty,” she added, “Tehran with all its ugliness will in my eyes forever be the ‘bride’ of all cities around the world.”

 

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2606.04 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3990 days ago & DAD = 644 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.