UnBeige, mediabistro.com's design blog, passes along Marjane Satrapi's thoughts on graphic novels from a recent interview the creator of Persepolis gave to the Wall Street Journal. Namely, she hates 'em. Well, okay, the truth's a bit more specific than that:

"It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating—it's just a media type. [Fellow cartoonist] Chris Ware doesn't like it either—he says it sounds like Lady Chatterley's Lover."

The animated adapation of Satrapi's gra... um, comic book—an autobiogrpahical novel about life as a child in revolution-era Iran—is currently playing in limited release here in the States.