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Iranian cartoonist to boycott cartoon gathering

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Alan Gardner August 5, 2009 1 minute 0 comments

According to Michael Cavna over on his Comics Riff blog, more than 100 Iranian cartoonist will boycott the upcoming Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial scheduled for October.

According to Nik Kowsar, an exiled Iranian political cartoonist now living near Toronto, many of his colleagues have decided to boycott the Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial, scheduled for late October. The boycott is a reaction to the government’s post-election actions, says Kowsar, adding that the Cartoon Biennial is run by the government’s ministry of culture.