The creator of Persepolis has died ‘of sadness,’ but her life and work are not reducible to grief.

First published in 2000, Persepolis created a transformative shift in comics, memoir and political storytelling

The graphic novelist had a remarkable gift for visual storytelling, in the phenomenon that was Persepolis and beyond. Many of us owe our careers to the space she created, says…

The news shocked the artistic community, particularly Iranian artists in exile, on Thursday, June 4.French media, quoting the family of ...

The Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker who taught a generation how comics could be both confession and weapon recently died at 56.

The French-Iranian filmmaker shed light on the untold lives of Iranian women following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. As the US-Iran conflict shows no end in sight, Maira Butt…

The creator of Persepolis has died ‘of sadness,’ but her life and work are not reducible to grief.

The author of the best-selling graphic memoir Persepolis, who died last week, made defiance into a lifelong project.