Sine Hebdo #1 Claims 150K Sell-Out



I hope someday I take a photo as amusing as the one at the top of this article, and/or have a photo caption run under my photo that funny.

Anyway, if you don't remember L'Affaire Sine, this is the French cartoonist who was fired from Charlie Hebdo after making a joke about the son of the French President converting to Judaism. Some people thought this clearly anti-Semitic; others thought it perfectly within the realm of satire; still others focused on the fact that Charlie Hebdo had just gone through its own long case regarding speech related to Muslims as satire so it was surprising they'd fire the cartoonist. He is currently awaiting a hearing on that joke as hate speech, and has launched his own magazine in response to the whole deal. The link takes you to a short interview.
 
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