Iranian-French cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, who won acclaim for her graphic novel "Persepolis" about growing up in Tehran ...

Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi during a photocall for her animated film 'Persepolis' in the Festival Palace in Cannes(AFP ...

A committed advocate to furthering free speech and women's rights in her birth country, Satrapi lost her husband, Swedish actor Mattias Ripa, in April last year, and "died of sadness", according to ...

The bestselling author transformed her experiences growing up in post-revolutionary Iran into one of the most influential ...

The Iranian-French graphic novelist had been mourning her husband, Mattias Ripa, who passed away in April 2025.

Satrapi's family told the Agence France-Presse news agency that the French Iranian graphic novelist "died of sadness" ...

French cartoonist and filmmaker was perhaps most well-known for the graphic memoir, and subsequent film, about her life ...

Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure of French culture and an artist devoted to freedom, whose work carried a ...

In a 2006 interview with The Believer, multi-talented artist and activist Marjane Satrapi said, “nothing is scarier than the ...

Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed cartoonist, filmmaker, and activist who authored the Persepolis graphic novels, has died at ...

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival drew to a close this past May 24th. In this video dispatch, Chaz Ebert reflects on this year’s ...