Joann Sfar’s Greffier In the News

* Matthias Wivel provides the first major English-language review of Joann Sfar's Greffier, which covered in comics form the Charlie Hebdo trial. As you may recall, in 2006 three Muslim groups sued the French satirical magazine for defamation due to republishing the Danish Muhammed cartoons and providing an original cover featuring Muhammed; the magazine was acquitted earlier this year. Wivel finds the book engagingly drawn but a bit information-light and loaded in a way that forces the sympathy into a place that probably wasn't the cartoonist's intent.

* ActuaBD.com has an exchange between Sfar and the lawyer from the Mosquee de Paris, one of the three groups involved in the suit. Sfar called Bigot "the lawyer of the idiots" in Greffier.
 
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