Various Charlie Hebdo-Related News Updates

The magazine Charlie Hebdo is back in the news coming up upon the one-year anniversary of the murders of editorial support staff in their offices on January 7, 2015.

* between when I started this post and my finishing it for it to roll out, the cover to special edition of Charlie Hebdo put out to coincide with the first anniversary of the murders has been released to press.

* here's a long article meditating on some of the effects the post-shooting solidarity has had, starting with the magazine designer who put together that initial Je Suis Charlie logo.

* this may or may not take you to an article that reviews the last year in terms of the changing attitudes toward political expression through cartoon art.

* a lot of what we're going to see is material re-argued from the initial back and forth a year ago, which I guess is fine in that a lot of that stuff was poorly argued with an eye towards winning a political point. Here's one article that could have appeared in that time period, about the mis-analysis that critics brought to the magazine.

* here's an article with twin points: circulation on the magazine is up, but the magazine is so different now that it can hardly be called the same.

* Scott Simon talks to Adam Gopnik in anticipation of Charb's manifesto.

* there's a video here about making art after last year's bookend attacks in Paris. I have no idea if it's any good or not, lacking the time to cook up a bowl of popcorn and watch a video as opposed to reading an article like sites used to provide. If it's great, someone please tell me.

* finally, here's a more formal listing of events planned in commemoration of the murders.
 
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