I stand for the right to draw and be satirical and free to express what is felt wrong and despicable in this world.
Today, twelve good people were shot in Paris because of this right of expression. Among them were five famous French cartoonists I have followed for years and laughed to tears at their drawings. This front page is forty one year old and today, it makes me cry. But I fairly well know the spirit of these artists will survive their dreadful deaths.
Tonight, I found what seems to me more relevant to their cause in the English press, from Salman Rushdie (Quotes from the Telegraph)
15.34 Celebrated French cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Tignous and Wolinski were all killed in the attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo. Theo Merz profiles the victims:
Read full profiles: Paris shooting: the cartoonists who were killed
Among the dead are (clockwise from top left) Jean Cabut (aka Cabu), Tignous, Georges Wolinski and Charb - EPA/YOAN VALAT
15.21 Salman Rushdie, the author who was the subject of a fatwa calling for his assassination issued by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has declared he "stands with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire"
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