Death of a Legend: Ardeshir Mohassess - September 9, 1938 - October 9, 2008
Payvand.com - Ardeshir Mohassess, the
legendary Iranian cartoonist and illustrator, passed away at his home in New
York on the afternoon of October 9, 2008.
Information about the funeral and memorial will be
published in the coming days.
Ardeshir Mohassess
was born in Iran in 1938 and began drawing early in his
childhood. In the 1960s, after receiving a degree in political science from
Tehran University, he worked as an illustrator for Iranian journals and
newspapers. Soon after, his drawings began to appear in major international
newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times. In 1976,
Mohassess left Iran for what he planned as a temporary stay in the
United States. However, with the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution
in 1979—which brought an end to the reign of the Pahlavi Shahs and
instated a theocracy led by Ayatollah Khomeini—Mohassess chose to
remain in New York.
