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An account of life

I Won't Pretend These Missiles Are Stars: Life in Iran During the 12-Day War by Tehran's Cartoonist Collective / The Cartoonist Collective

March 2, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The short stories inside of I Won’t Pretend These Missiles Are Stars by Tehran’s Cartoonist Collective deal with the weeks of war between Israel and Iran. Set in Iran, each of the people giving their story has a different way of dealing or not dealing with the events around them. Some worry about the big picture (death), others worry that they never got to wear the special outfit to their presentation. Each author has a unique way of showing what was and wasn’t important to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: 12-Day War, family, friendship, human rights, Iran, political science, Tehran's Cartoonist Collective, Tehran's Cartoonist Collective / The Cartoonist Collective, The Cartoonist Collective, war

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:77 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: 12-Day War, family, friendship, human rights, Iran, political science, Tehran's Cartoonist Collective, Tehran's Cartoonist Collective / The Cartoonist Collective, The Cartoonist Collective, war ·
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