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Aisha Gani

Charlie Hebdo attack: cartoonists show solidarity with Paris victims

Charlie Hebdo homepage
A screengrab shows the homepage of satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo after gunmen stormed its Paris office and killed 12 people. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images

Cartoonists and commentators displayed solidarity with French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after the attack on its office in Paris on Wednesday, in which 12 people, including 10 journalists, have been confirmed dead.

David Pope, cartoonist at the Canberra Times, posted this moving tribute:

Cartoonist @plantu of Le Monde posted this, which translates as “Wholeheartedly with Charlie Hebdo.”

Magnus Shaw, a British writer, tweeted this cartoon of Charlie Brown, from the long-running comic strip Peanuts:

Indian cartoonist Satish Acharya tweeted this:

Egyptian cartoonist Cheb Makhlouf published this illustration:

Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff published this tribute:

Dutch cartoonist Ruben Oppenheimer posted:

Yannick Lemay from Québec, Canada, posted:

From a Spanish cartoonist:

This strong image was posted by Philippe Henchoz:

A tribute from Belgium-based newspaper De Standaard:

French website Le Plus posted shared this cartoon:

Artist Tomi Ungerer tweeted this cartoon with the caption, “No freedom without freedom of press”:

French illustrator Martin Vidberg tweeted:

Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Nate Beeler posted his cartoon originally published in 2010:

Cartoonist Loïc Sécheresse, from Paris, tweeted this vivid cartoon:

Indian cartoonist Neelabh Banerjee tweeted:

This caroon was posted by Stephen Strydom, from South Africa:

Julien Fabro of Piwee, a French creative site, posted:

French cartoonist Gilles Roussel tweeted:

French graphic designer Jean Jullien posted:

Journalist Gilles Klein shared this cartoon from French newspaper Le Télégramme :

US Journalist Seth Fiegerman posted this cartoon from Indy Star:

Lucille Clerk posted this to Instagram:

And finally, a cartoon by Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes:

On social media, many expressed their support for the magazine by publishing its cartoons, including Charlie Hebdo’s controversial front cover “Charia Hebdo”, showing a cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

The front cover below, which has also been widely tweeted, has the caption “Love is stronger than hate” and was published six days after the magazine’s offices were firebombed in 2011.

On social media many retweeted the last post from the magazine’s official account, which was sent just hours before the attack. The cartoon is of Isis’s self-styled leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, with a caption reading: “Best wishes. To you too, al-Baghdadi.”

A French games developer pointed out that the cartoon in this week’s issue of the magazine attacked alleged anti-Muslim writer Michel Houellebecq.

Many commentators also posted a satirical New Yorker cartoon by Robert Mankoff on the issue of freedom of speech, which was first published in September 2012.

An account that reacts to news by posting in the style of Tintin tweeted this image, by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi:

User Thierry Puget, @titi1960, tweeted the image below, which was widely shared by those wanting to express solidarity with the victims of the attack. Within an hour after news of the shooting broke, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie began trending on Twitter worldwide:

Media organisations, including Germany’s Bild (below), also shared the photo:

Officials used this picture to express their solidarity, including the US embassy in Paris:

  • This article was amended on 8 January 2015. A cartoon attributed to Banksy was in fact by Lucille Clerk. This has been changed
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