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Cartooning Is No Job for Cowards

Defiance

The terrorist murders in Paris this week are only the latest instance in which satirical imagery has inspired violent retaliation. Cartoonists are no strangers to jail and death.

The murder of five cartoonists, five magazine staffers, and two police officers in and just outside the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the morning of January 7 dismays in part because of its signature event status.

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