Daily Kos has a great collection of cartoons by Cabu for Charlie Hebdo – anti-racism cartoons to be specific.
Below are cartoons drawn over the past several decades by Cabu, one of the most emblematic cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo (if not the most). Cabu was murdered along with his colleagues this past week. He was 75 years old.
Although no media outlet in the US will show you these images, they can all be found online with a simple Google search.
“No to racist identity checks.”
That’s Jean-Marie Le Pen of the Front National, saying “We want to be able to go out at night without being afraid!” He doesn’t mean without being afraid of white supremacist gangs armed with clubs.
See Daily Kos for the rest.
H/t Kausik
Thank you, ProgNet, Kausik, and Ophelia.
Yeah, Cabu was anti-racist, and as you can see, could be witty and clever. He was also a pacifist and had been an environmentalist for decades, well before it was mainstream.
He contributed to the opening credits of a children broadcast in the 80’s, RécréA2. Many seem to remember him dearly because of this (not me, I was too young); I have read several reports from comic book illustrators (notably Manu Larcenet) that it was these opening credits that prompted their vocation to become illustrators.
The “No to racist controls” image is reminiscent, it seems to me, of the “No to bureaucracy” ’68-era poster. If it was drawn with the older one in mind, it’s quite interesting: instead of the hierarchical sameness of bureaucracy, it calls attention to racist hierarchies.