From the New York Observer: I’m not going to make a career out of baiting some fucking religious fanatics, you know, by insulting their prophet. I wouldn’t do that. That seems crazy. But then, after they got killed, I just had to draw that cartoon, you know, showing the Prophet. The cartoon I drew shows … Robert Crumb on the Charlie Hedbo attacks.
In a post in 2008, I made note of how harassment of critics made it necessary for those protesting Scientology to protest as Anonymous, the hacker collective who has chosen their public visage to be a Guy Fawkes mask (as depicted in the comic V for Vendetta). All those reasons increase tenfold when such harassment … “Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea! And ideas are bulletproof.”
Imagine the offices of Mad Magazine or The Onion being stormed by gunmen, killing off many of their most biting satirists. This is effectively what happened in France this week, when the popular comedy newspaper, Charlie Hebdo lost many of their top cartoonists, in such an attack. An excellent primer on Charlie Hebdo, and its … Je suis Charlie (Screw ’em if they can’t take a joke)