The highly-regarded Iranian cartoonist and artist Ardeshir Mohassess, a practitioner of drawn satire in the tradition of William Hogarth and Saul Steinberg, died Thursday following a heart attack in his adopted home of New York City. He was 70 years old. He was born to a middle-class family (his dad was a lawyer, his mother the head of an all-girls school) in Rasht, a large city on the Caspian sea in Iran's northwest province. After graduating from the University of Tehran in the early '60s with either a law degree or a degree in political science and spending some time employed as a librarian, he moved into cartooning full time, returning to a passion he held since early childhood and which had deepened in college. While he'd sold some drawings as a child to the satirical paper Towfigh, his first adult sales came to the...
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