From The Washington Post:
Last week,?upon celebrating his birthday, the longtime Charlie Hebdo cartoonist ?Luz? was running late for an editorial meeting at the French satirical weekly’s Paris offices. By the time he got there, masked gunmen?had killed 12 people, including five of his cartooning friends and colleagues. Because Luz was born on Jan. 7, he was a survivor.
This week, the publication is publishing “the survivor’s issue,” illustrated by Luz, whose real name is Renald Luzier.
More about Luz, from WaPo:
It was ?Luz,? who in 2011 responded to a firebombing of the publication’s offices by drawing a Charlie Hebdo artist kissing a Muslim man ? in a direct attempt at returning fire through a cartoon instead of a cannon. On that cover were the words: ?L?Amour plus fort que la haine (love is stronger than hate).?
The cover image has been?confirmed by French media to be a caricature of the prophet Muhammad shedding a tear and holding a sign that reads??Je suis Charlie? beneath the words ?Tout est pardonne,” which means “We Forgive You.”
Charlie Hebdo?will?publish at least one million copies of the survivor’s edition.
Here it is.
Watch Rachel Maddow tell the story about this cover in the MSNBC video below.
