Comic Creators React to Charlie Hebdo Attack

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Brett

The comics community is still in shock after the attacks on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo resulting in the deaths, the murder, of at least one editor and four cartoonists, twelve total individuals (including two police officers), as well as the injury to many more.

Tom Spurgeon summed it up best:

This is awful beyond words, and monstrous beyond imagining.

Below you’ll see the reaction by many in the comics community to the horrific news. The short version, this is an attack on free speech and expression, violence is never a proper response to satire and free speech, and our thoughts to the friends and families of those lost and affected.

How important are free speech and satire? Important enough that people will murder others to silence the kind of speech they don't like.

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) January 7, 2015

I was unfamiliar with Charlie Hebdo before today, but what insanity over some drawings. How deranged do you have to be?

— Ryan Higgins (@RyanHigginsRyan) January 7, 2015

If your god is so awesomely powerful, he doesn't need your interference or vengeance.

— Ralph RAGS Morales (@RagsMorales) January 7, 2015

i guess i shouldn't be surprised that this attack has lead to denouncement of religion. religion didn't do this. crazy assholes did this.

— Ivan Brandon (@IvanBrandon) January 7, 2015

I wish extremists realized they only hurt their religions by making it look so violent and going to extremes.

— D.J. Coffman (@djcoffman) January 7, 2015

https://twitter.com/Paul_Cornell/status/552859422259949569

Damn that's shocking news from France today. Thoughts and prayers with the families and friends of those killed and injured.

— Mark Sweeney (@MarkSweeney) January 7, 2015

Devastated this morning #JeSuisCharlie

— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) January 7, 2015

Aujourd'hui #jesuischarlie @Charlie_Hebdo_

— CBLDF (@CBLDF) January 7, 2015

#CharlieHebdo RIP to the cartoonists and other staff and police who were killed by terrorists in #Paris. Let's hope the gunmen are caught

— Tony S Daniel (@TonyDanielx2) January 7, 2015

The Paris attack is crazy. What a world we live in where satirists/cartoonists need police protection… http://t.co/W6dYaNSj3U

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 7, 2015

Cartoonists can't even get paid these days, and they have to deal with this, too?

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 7, 2015

Aware this morning going to work my safety isn't a result of WHERE I am, but that I'm a white guy not trying to offend. #NAACP #CharlieHebdo

— Scott Allie (@ScottAllie) January 7, 2015

You want to pray to God? Pray for peace, love, and understanding. Pray for freedom for everyone. Pray that this evil in thw world stops.

— Jimmy Palmiotti (@jpalmiotti) January 7, 2015

I woke up to a world where being a cartoonist is an offense punishable by death.

— Allison Sohn (@MrsAdamHughes) January 7, 2015

Sad news to wake up to: my heart goes to Paris to the families of cartoonists & other victims of this barbaric attack pic.twitter.com/R9rPXtxdB6

— FrancescoFrancavilla (@f_francavilla) January 7, 2015

Sad news of the terror attack in paris, my thoughts are with you folks #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie

— bernard crowsheet (@bernieCrowsheet) January 7, 2015

Free expression is critique, debate, nuance, argument, protest. It's not simple or easy, and violence can't make it shut up and go away.

— Al Ewing (@Al_Ewing) January 7, 2015

An attack on cartoonists is an attack on us all.

— Steve Horton (@tropicalsteve) January 7, 2015

Maniacs killed artists because they hated their art. The least we can do is show it. http://t.co/c0AlvbRyPX via @thedailybeast #CharlieHebdo

— Perazza (@Perazza) January 7, 2015

Awful news to wake up to. My condolences to all who are being affected by the attack in France. Please consider your words carefully today.

— Jill Pantozzi (@JillPantozzi) January 7, 2015

So I guess 2015 is going to suck too. #NAACPBombing #CharlieHebdo

— Ed Brubaker (@brubaker) January 7, 2015

This is BULLSHIT you guys RT @BostonGlobe: Paris on alert after shooting at #CharlieHebdo http://t.co/rEC10cWWEB pic.twitter.com/GGZT7grqOr

— Edgar Delgado (@delgaduck) January 7, 2015

Cartoonists killed today by the usual gang of idiots.

— JavierHernandez (@JavierHernandez) January 7, 2015

I'm not a satirist, but I do create cartoons about science – a subject also disliked by religious fundamentalists. Time to do another then.

— Darryl Cunningham (@AcmeDarryl) January 7, 2015

#CharlieHebdo editor, assassinated today, in 2012 he said:"I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees."

— D.J. Coffman (@djcoffman) January 7, 2015

Just keep drawing. #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie

— Andy Diggle (@andydiggle) January 7, 2015

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