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Terry Anderson: The only appropriate response to a cartoon that offends is another, better one making the counterpoint

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Death in its shroud, with its scythe, looks on a gravestone with a pencil and the word "cartoonist" carved on it and says "That's not funny."

Terry Anderson cartoon, used with permission

“… the Charlie Hebdo atrocity was undoubtedly the most high-profile and deadly attack on cartoonists ever seen.  It was exceptional and sits apart from a wider and more pernicious trend of persecution by governments.  An easy measure for the level of freedom a cartoonist enjoys is how much harassment he or she can expect after drawing a cartoon of their nation’s leaders.  And if it can be demonstrated that cartoonists are in jeopardy, you can rest assured that journalists, commentators and oppositional voices of every stripe are too” — cartoonist Terry Anderson looking back on the year since the Charlie Hebdo killings, for Glasgow’s Sunday Herald.

To read the complete essay, click here.

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