Links, Statements And Notes As They Relate To The Charlie Hebdo Killings

This is a clearinghouse for various links and articles related to the killings in and around the Charlie Hebdo offices, and its violent aftermath in Paris a couple of days later. There will be links to material and the employment of images here or elsewhere that may upset. Every link and every image used is intended to better facilitate this site's mission to inform.

* here's an article about a press conference for this week's issue of Charlie Hebdo. The statements by Luz are fairly heartbreaking even if you hate everything Charlie Hebdo does, just from the point of view of that there's a man who's had a soul-destroying week. Or at least I think they would be.

* here's video.

* Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is apparently claiming responsibility, claiming it's part of a longtime plan, claiming it's for the depictions of Muhammed and generally lambasting France for its partnership with the US and involvement in anti-Al Qaeda activity since 2001. These are the people that were responsible for the cargo shipment plot where the goal was to further weaken the US economy by driving companies to improve their shipping security, which indicates a broad range of possible motivations may be on the table here.

* here's a video/text report on the early sales of today's special edition. Three million printed with more on the way. I can only imagine the intensity of demand to see it. A potential all-time best-selling comic?

* someone mentioned that Pat Oliphant came out of a lengthy hiatus to do two cartoons about the Hebdo killings. The visual choices he makes for depicting the terrorists are much more striking than many I've seen.

* CRNI rounds up various threats made against cartoonists since January 7.

* coming to it late, but one ultra-orthodox Jewish newspaper apparently photoshopped female world leaders out of a world leaders marching for Charlie Hebdo photograph. That is one weird set of principles coming into play there. I hope somewhere out there there's a newspaper that drew mustaches on everyone.

* Jules Feiffer comments.

* this interview with the caricaturist Nicolas Vado interests in two specific ways: his description of Belgium as a nation inclined to compromise, and the ease with which he declares the slain cartoonists and those in proximity as friends and heroes while also flat-out opposing some of their goals and approaches.

* Ward Sutton did a cartoon.

* I've run both the Crumb and the Crumb/Kominsky-Crumb cartoons but failed to run a link to this interview with Robert Crumb from last week abou the killings and his state of mind immediately afterward.

* I'm going to post a bunch of stuff that I'm not sure if I linked to or not. Here's a much-trafficked article of cartoonist responses. Here is the NCS response. Wow Cool posted this. This was Bill Griffith's post in support. Here's a post about Muslims that publicly criticized the attacks; I didn't really go look at this, but there's a conservative idea that pops up when these kinds of events happen that moderate Muslims support this kind of thing through silence. It's never true, and of course wasn't here. Here's a tweet I suppose is critical of some of the dialogue day of/day after. David Wallis wrote this piece for SFGate. Here's a very sweet Sarah McIntyre cartoon. Here's a Zak Sally thread I read back on the 7th. Bill Hicks on free expression. Signe Wilkinson cartooned and wrote about the killings here. A friend of Cabu drew his late pal. Andrew Wheeler did a strong round-up of early reactions. Here's a round-up of British responses. Here's one of those calls to publish the cartoons, an early argument about this whole mess that has faded a bit. I'm baffled that these kinds of things become articles -- what do the other cast members of DC Cab think about the killings? Andrew O'Hehir attempts one of those "this is what this really is" articles. This may be the best headline the story has produced. I don't know who wrote this articulate missive about the power relationships inhere in satire, which is ironic in that at least I know they're not Charlie. Eleanor Davis with a lovely thought. Here's another passionate essay from someone certain that English-language critics don't understand what Hebdo was up to. Here's yet another. And here's probably the most succinct essay so far in the "don't turn the slain cartoonists and staffers into the kind of idol they lived to tear down" series.

* here's an essay about satire in the Muslim world.

* the writer Bob Levin comments. Like some other commentary, he looks at a number of murders and deaths that happened last week around the same time as the Hebdo killings, but he does so to specific effect.

* here's a series of cartoons by Cabu.

* Keith Knight made a cartoon.

* finally, I'm not sure if you can get at the discussion from here, but Jenny Robb from the Billy Ireland was one of the folks brought in by this radio show to talk Charlie Hebdo.
 
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