Go, Read: Jeet Heer On The Aesthetic Failure Of Charlie Hebdo

The writer and critic Jeet Heer has an approach on the Charlie Hebdo material worth considering in what has suddenly become a crowded field of articles on the subject. In a New Republic article, Heer suggests that Hebdo adheres to an outdate mode of making a satirical point about racism, citing 1960s satirist/comedian Lenny Bruce and the cartoonist Robert Crumb as its direct antecedents. It's something I'd like to dig into a bit; Crumb is an interesting subject to bring up wihin this context because a lot of the criticism lobbied his way either denies or doesn't care that the artist doesn't work in this mode anymore.
 
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