I was going to publish a new ICECUBES comic strip today, but the events in Paris have deeply saddened me. I used to live in Paris and I read Charlie Hebdo through the 1980s. I thought the drawings were sloppy and the jokes sometimes lame, but I liked the format and the rollicking no-holds-barred attitude and freedom they enjoyed. I knew Cabu and Wolinski’s work well and I still have old issues of the mag. They were the equivalent of the underground American cartoonists of the 60s and 70s. They lampooned everyone – the church, the pope, the president, actors, celebrities – sort of like an X-rated version of Mad magazine. When cartoonists are gunned down in their editorial meeting just for drawing silly cartoons it should tell us that we are in a cultural war. #JeSuisCharlie #IAmCharlie
Leroy Brown
