A wonderful article about the preparation of the Wednesdays Charlie Hebdo edition! Here are some of the pearls about the people who manage to stay ironic and show a perfect sense of humor even after such a terrible tragedy. Je suis Charlie. These guys are my heroes.: --- “We decided that we would do a normal edition, not a memorial issue,” --- At about 9:10 on Monday evening, laughter and a round of applause broke out among the surviving staff members of Charlie Hebdo, followed shortly by cries — joyous if ironic — of “Allahu akbar!” The group was cheering Rénald Luzier, the cartoonist known as Luz, who on the umpteenth try had produced what the editors thought was the perfect cover image for the most anticipated issue ever of this scrappy, iconoclastic weekly, which will appear on Wednesday. It showed a figure of the Prophet Muhammad holding a sign saying, “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”), with the words “All is forgiven” in French above it on a green background. --- “In this edition, they didn’t kill anyone,” Mr. Biard said. The staff members will “appear as they always did.” Asked what else would go in the paper, Patrick Pelloux, an emergency room doctor who also writes for Charlie, said with a laugh: “Oh, I don’t know. Not much happening this week.” --- “The people who came to kill us — they are fanatics and assassins — but above all, they are people who lack a sense of humor.” --- Ever since, the paper had run a little tag on its front page that read “irresponsible publication,” --- The main question looming over the moment: How could they possibly be funny at a time like this? “We don’t know how to do anything but laugh,” said Mr. Biard, who was on vacation the day of the shootings. --- When the gunmen arrived, some thought it might be a joke, according to staff members. After years of threats, Mr. Charbonnier had made a joke of the jihadist cry “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” said Zineb El Rhazoui, 32, a Charlie Hebdo reporter. “It was like his war cry: ‘Allahu akbar this.’ ‘Allahu akbar that,’ ” she said. “We joked with him that he needed to stop using the phrase because the day the assassins actually come to kill us, we won’t know if it’s them screaming this phrase or Charb,” she said. --- nytimes/2015/01/13/arts/international/charlie-hebdo-staff-prepares-next-issue.html
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:17:54 +0000
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