Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi dies at 56

Key points

• Acclaimed Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights, has died at 56, the French presidency said Thursday (June 4, 2026).
• “Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure of French culture and an artist devoted to freedom, whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim,” the French presidency said in a statement.
• President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron “pay tribute to a remarkable artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable,” the statement said.
• News broadcaster BFM TV and other French media reported Ms. Satrapi has “died of sadness” a little over a year after the death of her husband, Swedish film producer and actor Mattias Ripa, according to a statement from people close to the artist.
• The French Academy of Fine Arts, of which she was a member, expressed its deep sadness in a social...