Exiled Iranian cartoonist vows to fight regime
afp / Myriam Chaplain-Riou
10-Feb-2012

Iranian dissident cartoonist Mana Neyestani says drawing has been his salvation and a weapon to combat his own personal demons as well as Tehran's hardline Islamist regime.

Neyestani's autobiographical comic book "An Iranian Metamorphosis," a Kafkaesque story recounting his jailing in Iran over a cartoon depicting a cockroach that sparked riots in 2006, is due to hit stores on February 16.

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