A collaboration of activists, artists, journalists, and academics working together to depict the historic uprising with comics that show what would be censored in photos and film in Iran in solidarity with the Iranian people, in defence of feminism. On September 13th 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the religious police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasnt properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. The plight of this 22yearold woman raised a wave of protests that soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan Woman, Life, Freedom. Around the world, these words have been chanted during solidarity rallies. In this powerful visual collection of graphic novel style essays, Marjane Satrapi has gathered together intense narration by herself and an array of journalists and writers with graphic art perspectives from esteemed collaborators including Coco, a press cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo Patricia Bolanos, a Spanish illustrator based in Brooklyn Mana Neyestani, an Iranian cartoonist and illustrator and Paco Roca, a Spanish comic book artist, Shabnam Adiban, an Iranian illustrator based in Toronto, among others. Together, these are the artists and storytellers Marjane Satrapi has chosen to tell the story of a major revolution happening in her...

Binding: Paperback;280 pages; Publisher: Seven Stories Press Ltd; Classification: FXZ; Weight: 828 g; Dimensions: 183 x 253 x 22

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