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Charlie Hebdo's Luz quits Muhammad cartoons
Charlie Hebdo cartoonist "Luz", who designed the front page of the magazine that appeared after the Paris attacks, has said he will no longer draw the Prophet Muhammad.
Renald Luzier has told French magazine Inrocks, external that drawing Muhammad "no longer interests me".
Twelve people were murdered when two Islamist gunmen burst into the Charlie Hebdo offices on 7 January.
The attack prompted a wave of sympathy under the banner "Je suis Charlie".
Within days of the attack, the satirical magazine's surviving staff produced a defiant edition with the headline "All is forgiven" above Luz's cartoon showing the Prophet weeping, while holding a sign saying "I am Charlie".
Pictorial depictions of Muhammad are considered forbidden by most Muslims.
Following the January attack, the magazine's normal print run of 60,000 eventually climbed to eight million.
"I've got tired of [drawing Muhammad], just like I got tired of drawing Sarkozy. I'm not going to spend my life drawing them," Luz said in answer to a question about the famous January edition.
Luz is about to release a book of cartoons entitled "Catharsis", which he says in his i
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“Catharsis” and Charlie
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Cynthia Rose | May 28, 2015
The cartoonist Rénald "Luz" Luzier, a Charlie Hebdo staffer, was born on January 7– the moment for eating a French cake called the 'galette des rois'. This year, Luz spent the evening before it with his analyst. Thinking about his birthday, he told her, made him a little bit blue. Year after year, the day unrolled in a pattern. It started with parental phone calls and finished with a "surprise" dinner.
In between would come the year's first meeting at Charlie Hebdo. To that, being a birthday boy, he had to bring a galette. In 23 years, he grumbled, nothing ever changed. His "special day" was one of hopeless predictability.
In his new book Catharsis (Futuropolis), Luz recalls this chat. But the memory comes after 114 pages of blood, phantoms, police, guns, media and hallucinations. Frenetic sex alternates with bewilderment and sudden rages flame up before they shrink back into shudders. All this tumult is pictured in different styles, sometimes with anarchic scratches and other times in orderly sequences.
The book is, of course, about how everything changed on Luzier's birthday. But his confessional volume should have a wider interest. That’s because its subtext is the artist