Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris
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That's the way I felt. I wonder how I would feel if I was in my twenties though? It weird. I haven't taken Gods name in vane since I had a bar of Ivory soap shoved in my mouth. (yes--it used to be that way.) I still don't go to church, but I respect the God I was thought to fear, and love. I can't comment on other people's religion. I just know that until I started to think for myself their was not much of a line between religion/reality. I feel uncomfortable writing this post. I guess because I'm scared of another attack?
Most [in]famous, yes. But he couldn't draw realistic figures until something like two decades into his career.
I highly recommend Scott Long's piece http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/why-i-am-not-charlie (extra points for reading it all), regarding the incident and it's aftermath; and implore us all to reexamine reflexive Acts of Solidarity and the Right of Free Speech in a pluralistic civilized society
Scott Long says, "There’s a perfectly good reason not to republish the cartoons that has nothing to do with cowardice or caution. I refuse to post them because I think they’re racist and offensive." I hear a loud whooshing sound as I read that. He completely misses both the tradition and purpose with which the cartoons were published, as well as the entire point of republishing them after the fact.