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The last page has a cartoon by Luz showing disappointed Islamist terrorists arriving in heaven and asking “Where are the 70 virgins?” The answer they get is “With the Charlie team, losers.” Luz, who drew the cartoon of the prophet on the cover three years ago, avoided last week's mass murder because he overslept by half an hour and was late for work.
The last page has a cartoon by Luz showing disappointed Islamist terrorists arriving in heaven and asking “Where are the 70 virgins?” The answer they get is “With the Charlie team, losers.” Luz, who drew the cartoon of the prophet on the cover three years ago, avoided last week's mass murder because he overslept by half an hour and was late for work.
Inside
• One double-page spread is a cartoon showing the slain cartoonist Cabu mocking jihadists who go to fight in Syria and comparing them to students going to study abroad on the Erasmus programme.
• The new edition also shows a series of cartoons previously published by the slain cartoonists Wolinski, Charb, Tignous and Honoré, and texts by Bernard Maris and Elsa Cayat, who were also killed in the attack last Wednesday.
• Riss, one of the cartoonists who was wounded in the attack, provides a cartoon showing a Charlie Hebdo cartoonist killing several of the Charlie team with a Kalashnikov with the caption: “A Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, that’s 25 years of work. A terrorist, that’s 25 seconds of work. Terrorist - that’s a job for layabouts and *******.”
• The designer Corinne Rey, who goes by the name of Coco, publishes a drawing titled “Liberty, I write your name”, a homage to the “unity march” which on Sunday drew nearly four million people on to the streets of France in response to the terror attacks.
• In one of the magazine’s frequent jibes at the Catholic church, another double page spread depicts the “unity march” on Sunday alongside the caption: “January 11, more people for Charlie than for mass.”
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• One double-page spread is a cartoon showing the slain cartoonist Cabu mocking jihadists who go to fight in Syria and comparing them to students going to study abroad on the Erasmus programme.
• The new edition also shows a series of cartoons previously published by the slain cartoonists Wolinski, Charb, Tignous and Honoré, and texts by Bernard Maris and Elsa Cayat, who were also killed in the attack last Wednesday.
• Riss, one of the cartoonists who was wounded in the attack, provides a cartoon showing a Charlie Hebdo cartoonist killing several of the Charlie team with a Kalashnikov with the caption: “A Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, that’s 25 years of work. A terrorist, that’s 25 seconds of work. Terrorist - that’s a job for layabouts and *******.”
• The designer Corinne Rey, who goes by the name of Coco, publishes a drawing titled “Liberty, I write your name”, a homage to the “unity march” which on Sunday drew nearly four million people on to the streets of France in response to the terror attacks.
• In one of the magazine’s frequent jibes at the Catholic church, another double page spread depicts the “unity march” on Sunday alongside the caption: “January 11, more people for Charlie than for mass.”
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The issue
Wednesday's special edition will be the usual 16 pages long, and will be translated into Arabic, Turkish, Spanish and English.
Up to 3 million copies in 25 countries could be printed - way beyond its usual print run of 60,000 - in response to soaring demand from readers who want to show solidarity with the satirical magazine.
Wednesday's special edition will be the usual 16 pages long, and will be translated into Arabic, Turkish, Spanish and English.
Up to 3 million copies in 25 countries could be printed - way beyond its usual print run of 60,000 - in response to soaring demand from readers who want to show solidarity with the satirical magazine.
[h=1]How I created the Charlie Hebdo magazine cover: cartoonist Luz's statement in full[/h][h=2]Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz gives a moving account at today's press conference of how he created the cover of tomorrow's special issue of the magazine[/h]The front cover of tomorrow's seminal Charlie Hebdo magazine was drawn by one of its surviving cartoonists in the wake of the horrific attack which killed 12 at its offices.
It portrays the Prophet Mohammed holding a sign which reads 'Je suis Charlie'.
Here, Luz explains the creation of the cover, in full:
I invoked all the talents of the magazine, all those who were not there any more, all those were still there, I said to myself, we must do a drawing that above all makes us laugh, and not one on the emotional charge we are victims of.
I had the idea of drawing this character of Mohammed, as it’s my character, because he existed, at least in people’s hearts, and in any case he exists when I draw him.
He is a character that got our offices burned, and a character who at first got us treated as the great white knights of the freedom of the press because the offices had burned down. Then a year later when we redrew the character we were treated as dangerous provocative and irresponsible. So this character led us to be called either white knights or provocateurs, whereas we are above all cartoonists who draw little people like children do.
The terrorists were once kids, they drew like us, like all kids, then one day they perhaps lost their sense of humour, perhaps their child soul able to see the world from a bit of a distance, because that’s Charlie – being able to draw the world from a small distance. So I drew saying to myself: “I am Charlie”. That was my idea but it wasn’t enough.
The only idea left was to draw Mohammed, I am Charlie. Then I looked at him, he was crying. Then above, I wrote: “All is forgiven”, and then cried. We had the front page, we had finally found this bloody front page. This was our front page.
This was not the front page the world wanted us to draw, it was our front page.
This is not the front page that the terrorists want us to draw, as there are no terrorists in it, just a man who cries: it’s Mohammed. I am sorry that we drew him again, but the Mohammed we drew is a Mohammed who is crying above all."
It portrays the Prophet Mohammed holding a sign which reads 'Je suis Charlie'.
Here, Luz explains the creation of the cover, in full:
I had the idea of drawing this character of Mohammed, as it’s my character, because he existed, at least in people’s hearts, and in any case he exists when I draw him.
He is a character that got our offices burned, and a character who at first got us treated as the great white knights of the freedom of the press because the offices had burned down. Then a year later when we redrew the character we were treated as dangerous provocative and irresponsible. So this character led us to be called either white knights or provocateurs, whereas we are above all cartoonists who draw little people like children do.
The terrorists were once kids, they drew like us, like all kids, then one day they perhaps lost their sense of humour, perhaps their child soul able to see the world from a bit of a distance, because that’s Charlie – being able to draw the world from a small distance. So I drew saying to myself: “I am Charlie”. That was my idea but it wasn’t enough.
The only idea left was to draw Mohammed, I am Charlie. Then I looked at him, he was crying. Then above, I wrote: “All is forgiven”, and then cried. We had the front page, we had finally found this bloody front page. This was our front page.
This was not the front page the world wanted us to draw, it was our front page.
This is not the front page that the terrorists want us to draw, as there are no terrorists in it, just a man who cries: it’s Mohammed. I am sorry that we drew him again, but the Mohammed we drew is a Mohammed who is crying above all."
French President Francois Hollande has insisted Charlie Hebdo and its values will survive, after the new edition of the satirical weekly sold out in hours.
"Charlie Hebdo is alive and will live on," Mr Hollande said.
Millions more copies of the magazine are being printed because of demand.
Survivors' issue
"You can murder men and women but you can never kill their ideas," President Hollande said following the publication of the latest edition.
He said the magazine had been "reborn" in the week after the killings.
The planned run increased steadily this week - from one million to three million to five million
People waited for kiosks to open to buy the magazine
"Charlie Hebdo is alive and will live on," Mr Hollande said.
Millions more copies of the magazine are being printed because of demand.
Survivors' issue
"You can murder men and women but you can never kill their ideas," President Hollande said following the publication of the latest edition.
He said the magazine had been "reborn" in the week after the killings.
Good thing there are like only a tiny fraction of extremists:
GENNEVILLIERS, France — Rather than fall quiet as requested during a national minute of silence last week, three boys in Hamid Abdelaali’s high school class in this heavily Muslim suburb of Paris staged an informal protest, speaking loudly through all 60 seconds.
Across France, they were not alone. In one school in Normandy, some Muslim students yelled “God is great!” in Arabic during that same moment. In a Paris middle school, another group of young Muslims politely asked not to respect the minute, arguing to their teacher, “You reap what you sow.”
GENNEVILLIERS, France — Rather than fall quiet as requested during a national minute of silence last week, three boys in Hamid Abdelaali’s high school class in this heavily Muslim suburb of Paris staged an informal protest, speaking loudly through all 60 seconds.
Across France, they were not alone. In one school in Normandy, some Muslim students yelled “God is great!” in Arabic during that same moment. In a Paris middle school, another group of young Muslims politely asked not to respect the minute, arguing to their teacher, “You reap what you sow.”
