Persepolis: Movie vs Book

On Wednesday when we started watching Persepolis in class I was very surprised by the film. I already knew that it was going to be in French, but I thought that it was going to have French actors and be in a real place. However, it was the actual comic book figures being animated on the screen. I thought this was really cool, and I had never seen that done in a movie before.
It was also interesting seeing how much different a book can be from its movie. There were many parts left out, just like it is with any book that is made into a movie. The main difference is that while reading the comic book you have to imagine what is happening between the boxes. The book tells you most of the information, but some of it is still up to you to decide what is really going on. You cant do this in the movie. It shows you exactly what is going on all the time. This is why I think I personally liked the book better than I liked the movie.
One cool part about the movie was that we got to see what happened in the second book in the Persepolis series. This book shows what happens when she comes back to Iran, and how things have still changed even more. The movie was very interesting for this book, but I would still like to read the second book. That way I could compare and contrast what happens in the movie and what happens in the book.