The online reaction to the attack of the
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been significant, with many
going on to Twitter and other sites to declare "Je Suis Charlie".
Many cartoonists have been using that slogan in drawings they have done in commemoration and solidarity.
"I was saying to someone recently that we're privileged to live in a
country where cartoonists don't get locked up, or worse murdered, for
what they draw. But of course it shouldn't be a privilege, it should be a
fundamental right. There are still plenty of countries, and not just
Islamic ones, where cartoonists are getting imprisoned for caricaturing
their leaders. So it's a fundamental right that we need to keep
reasserting.
There are times when I have disagreed with things Charlie Hebdo’s done and said, but that's the whole point of free speech - we can have those arguments. They get to draw what they think, I get to draw what I think, and we can all argue about it afterwards. And we need that discussion to go on. Whether it's visual or verbal, we need that give and take of ideas."
The Independent's cartoonist Dave Brown, on his globally admired response to the Paris atrocity. Read the whole article on:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-i-knew-i-had-to-express-defiance-because-i-wanted-to-be-true-to-the-spirit-of-the-magazine-9965467.html
