A friend of mine once summarized a Houthi cartoon I had shared with him in a way I have not been able to improve on: “Houthis, bad guys, good cartoons.” It was a funny line that made us both laugh, b…
Bad Guys, Good Cartoons: The Cultural Logic of Iran's Proxy Model
How the Axis of Resistance absorbs cultural talent without suppressing it, and what a Houthi cartoonist's trajectory from dissident to regime artist reveals about the proxy model's infrastructure.
