Charlie Hebdo pays tribute to its cartoonist in a collection

2023-10-26 11:05:41

The newspaper’s editions are publishing a collection of drawings by the former publishing director of the weekly, killed in the 2015 terrorist attack.

Charlie Hebdo pays tribute to one of its most abrasive cartoonists, Charb, killed in the jihadist attack against the magazine in January 2015, with a collection of his drawings published this Thursday. Charb, whose real name is Stéphane Charbonnier, was publishing director of the weekly, and above all a well-known signature.

Charb president!, on 170 pages, from A (like Michèle Alliot-Marie) to Z (like Éric Zemmour), includes hundreds of caricatures of characters from French political life since the 1990s. The collection is published by Les Échappés , the publishing house of Charlie Hebdo.

“It was a way of showcasing Charb’s talents as a cartoonist, by wrapping more than twenty years of French political life under his gaze,” explains the magazine’s publishing director, Riss, to AFP.

“Almost a history book”

“Last year, we said to ourselves that it would be good to make a compilation, which would show his humor. And at the end, it almost makes a history book, where characters who have faded are paraded , or who are still there, like Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, etc.”, he adds.

For the man who would be elected president in 2017, but who was at the time Minister of the Economy, Charb imagines a “new national anthem”: “Macron! Macron! Let an impure blood… Water our bosses!”