A cartoon in a comic strip by Pascal Garnier has been in the news in France these days and has provoked a big controversy, the images accompanying the cartoon were published in the French far-right magazine "Valeurs Actuelle" to a text published in the extreme right-wing French magazine "Valeurs Actuelle", in which the ... Read more
The French army is deeply outraged by Charlie Hebdo cartoons about soldiers killed in Mali. The satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a series of cartoons parodying the French army's recruitment campaign described as follows: "After the death of 13 soldiers in a helicopter crash in Mali, the army decided to change its recruitment ... Read more
2007 - 52 minutes "Bloody Cartoons, directed and produced by the Danish Karsten Kjær, is a documentary that delves into how and why 12 cartoons in a Danish provincial newspaper could bring a small country into a confrontation with Muslims from all over the world. It reflects on the limits, if any, to ... Read more
Cover of issue 1178 of Charlie Hebdo (14/01/2015) with drawing by Rénald Luzier "Luz", the first after the attack on 7 January. "On 7 January 2015, two brothers, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, entered the headquarters of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris and murdered twelve people. Eight of them were editorial staff: ... Read more
Cover of Siné Hebdo issue 1, 10 September 2008 2008. Creating a magazine from scratch in three weeks during the summer, the challenge seemed impossible. That was the reckoning of Maurice Sinet, "Siné", one of the founders of Charlie Hebdo in 1992. He had just been sacked from Charlie Hebdo. In his column, ... Read more
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