Many young Iranian artists admit to a passion for comic books from the United States and Europe. They can be purchased in Tehran, though they are expensive and often covered with the censors’ black ink. But local artists say they are trying to stamp their work with an Iranian identity.And, we can easily figure, positive portraits of Christians, Jews, and other western societies and beliefs are forbidden too, ditto criticism of Islam itself. No doubt Wonder Woman and many other US superheroines are taboo under such oppressive dictates too (the part about the black ink can tell something), and that just shows how even for comics writers and artists in Iran, there's no freedom of speech.
Life for them, though, is not easy because their creative aspirations are kept firmly in check by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, responsible for approving all publications in the country.
“All our art has to conform to Islamic law,” said Mr. Tavakoli. “So our published art differs a lot from Western graphic novels. For example, women’s hair should not be visible, and all female characters have to be dressed in accordance with Islamic tradition.”
All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Iranian comics forced to comply with sharia law
The New York Times wrote about Iranians who've written and drawn comics, and how their work must conform to the dictates of Islamic law (aka sharia):
My understanding is that no depictions of any living creature is allowed whether human or animal per the direct words of the chief pedophile himself, Moe.
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