Iranian Cartoonists Skipping Biennial
Michael Cavna at the wholly necessary Comic Riffs blog has a brief report up that says Nikahang Kowsar and other Iranian cartoonists are passing the word about a planned boycott by over 100 cartoonists of Iran's Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial. That event is scheduled for late October. Iranians take their cartooning competitions and exhibits very, very seriously and that one maybe most of all. The reason for the boycott is both the disputed election results and their accompanying street-level fallout and suppression.
