Berlin treats Satrapi with particular attachment: Persepolis had been voted "Comic of the Year" in Germany in 2004, and the German press has covered her death with rare editorial density.

Paris mourns an artist the Élysée wasted no time enlisting in the national pantheon — "a leading figure of French culture," reads the presidential statement, as if the word "French" alone could erase the slap delivered fourteen months earlier.

Washington hears the news through its agencies: NBC News and HuffPost run the AP and Reuters dispatches and underline the political dimension: Satrapi was "an outspoken critic of Iran's theocratic government and an advocate for women's rights.

London handles Satrapi with the particular affection the British press reserves for dissident artists: the BBC dwells on her academic path, the meeting at the Lycée Français de Vienne, the master's at Islamic Azad University in Tehran, the marriage and divorce, the move to Strasbourg.

Rome reads Satrapi through the Cannes prism — the Italian-French festival par excellence — and through the intellectual complicity that has long bound transalpine publishers to French comics.

Amsterdam reads Satrapi with the literary precision typical of Dutch press: NRC runs a long portrait that doesn't simply tell a life, it analyzes a body of work.

Stockholm mourns Satrapi with particular intimacy: her husband Mattias Ripa, who died on 8 April 2025, was a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter.

Istanbul reads Satrapi through two lenses: BBC Türkçe for the general public and Bianet for the critical feminist left.

Beijing offers the most revealing angle through its very neutrality: the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong-based, international readership) runs a 220-word standard AFP dispatch — the most minimalist obituary possible.

Islamabad relays Satrapi with a freedom of tone unusual for an Iran-related political topic: The Express Tribune publishes not one but two articles on the same day, one of which quotes verbatim Satrapi's critique of visa denials.

Seoul reproduces the AP dispatch in its entirety via the Korea Times.

Tel-Aviv handles Satrapi with surprising economy: Haaretz publishes a 540-character AP dispatch, almost entirely paywalled, that says only the essentials — "acclaimed Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker, advocate for women's rights, died of sadness at 56.

Buenos Aires offers the longest and most literary tribute in the international pool: Clarín runs a 7,500-character text that doesn't merely tell a life — it sets it against the common fate of women facing oppressive regimes, including those in Argentina, without needing to spell it out.

Mexico City doesn't merely mourn Satrapi — El Informador turns the obituary into a pedagogical case for Persepolis.

Ottawa offers standard, complete coverage: the Globe and Mail reproduces the AP dispatch in full — refusal of the 2025 Legion of Honor, verbatim quote on visas denied to dissidents, "Woman, Life, Freedom," election to the French Academy of Fine Arts, cinema foundation created earlier in 2026.