After the 2009 election protests in Iran, First Second launched Zahra's Paradise, which offered us an inside view of modern Iran and the corruption and abuses that led up to the protests. When the Egyptian people ousted President Mubarak, I couldn't help but wonder when Egypt would get a revolutionary webcomic of its own. Now on ACT-I-VATE, we have The Revolution Will Be Televised, by Dov Torvin and Asher Berman. Revolution offers a very different perspective than Zahra's Paradise, however. Zahra (now Eisner-nominated) tells Tehran's story from the perspective of a young Iranian man whose brother mysteriously vanished in the protests, while Revolution takes a distinctly outsider perspective. Torvin and Berman are American cartoonists who happened to be in Cairo at the time, and theirs is a first-person account. When they stumble upon the Tahrir Square demonstrations and start posting pictures of themselves against the crowd to Facebook, it's clear we're in for a very different story.

[The Revolution Will Be Televised via The Beat]