Val was editor Gébé was publication director. The new magazine was owned by Val, Gébé, Cabu, and singer Renaud. After much searching for a new name, the obvious idea of resurrecting Charlie Hebdo was agreed on. The three called upon Cavanna, Delfeil de Ton, and Wolinski, requesting their help and input. Gébé and Cabu walked out with him and decided to launch their own paper again. However, the following year, Val clashed with the publisher, who wanted apolitical humour, and was fired. In 1991, Gébé, Cabu, and others were reunited to work for La Grosse Bertha, a new weekly magazine resembling Charlie Hebdo, created in reaction to the First Gulf War and edited by singer and comedian Philippe Val. The first issue did feature a Peanuts strip, as the editors were fans of the series. Using that title for the new weekly magazine was also an inside joke about Charles de Gaulle. The monthly Charlie took its name from the lead character of one of the comics it originally published, Peanuts 's Charlie Brown. The new name was derived from a monthly comics magazine called Charlie (later renamed Charlie Mensuel, meaning Charlie Monthly), which had been started by Bernier and Delfeil de Ton in 1969. In order to sidestep the ban, the editorial team decided to change its title, and used Charlie Hebdo. The magazine released a cover spoofing the popular press's coverage of this disaster, headlined 'Tragic Ball at Colombey, one dead.' As a result, the weekly was banned. In November 1970, the former French president Charles de Gaulle died in his home village of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, eight days after a disaster in a nightclub, the Club Cinq-Sept fire, which had caused the death of 146 people. ( Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire – 'weekly') This was launched in February as Hara-Kiri Hebdo and renamed L'Hebdo Hara-Kiri in May of the same year. In 1969, the Hara-Kiri team decided to produce a weekly publication – on top of the existing monthly magazine – which would focus more on current affairs. New members of the team included Delfeil de Ton, Pierre Fournier (journaliste), and Willem. A few contributors did not return along with the newspaper, such as Gébé, Cabu, Topor, and Fred. Hara-Kiri was briefly banned in 1961, and again for six months in 1966. After an early reader's letter accused them of being 'dumb and nasty' ('bête et méchant'), the phrase became an official slogan for the magazine and made it into everyday language in France. Eventually Cavanna gathered together a team which included Roland Topor, Fred, Jean-Marc Reiser, Georges Wolinski, Gébé, and Cabu. Choron acted as the director of publication and Cavanna as its editor. In 1960, Georges 'Professeur Choron' Bernier and François Cavanna launched a monthly magazine entitled Hara-Kiri. The previous editors were François Cavanna (1970–1981) and Philippe Val (1952–2009).įrançois Cavanna (1923–2014), one of the founders of the first Charlie Hebdo title Gérard Biard is the current editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo. The magazine is published every Wednesday, with special editions issued on an unscheduled basis.

In 1981, publication ceased, but the magazine was resurrected in 1992. In the second of these attacks, 12 people were killed, including publishing director Charb and several other prominent cartoonists.Ĭharlie Hebdo first appeared in 1970 after the monthly Hara-Kiri magazine was banned for mocking the death of former French president Charles de Gaulle. All of them were presumed to be in response to a number of cartoons that it published controversially depicting Muhammad.

The magazine has been the target of three terrorist attacks: in 2011, 2015, and 2020. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as anti-racist, sceptical, secular, and within the tradition of left-wing radicalism, publishing articles about the far-right (especially the French nationalist National Front party), religion ( Catholicism, Islam and Judaism), politics and culture. Laurent 'Riss' Sourisseau (70%), Éric Portheault (30%) Ĭharlie Hebdo ( French pronunciation: meaning Charlie Weekly) is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes.

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