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Cartoonists React to Murder of Colleagues at Charlie Hebdo

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Copies of the French satirical weekly "Charlie Hebdo" are seen in their Paris newsroom February 9, 2006. The publication reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in its February 8, 2006 edition and published one of its own on its front page, angering Muslim groups at the time. Reuters
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Political cartoonists from around the world reacted with grief and words of support on Twitter after several of their French colleagues at the political satire newspaper Charlie Hebdo were shot and killed in an apparent terrorist attack in Paris on Wednesday. Here are the words and drawings of a few of them:

David Pope, political cartoonist for Australia's The Canberra Times:

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Pat Bagley, editorial cartoonist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Utah:

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Nate Beeler, editorial cartoonist for The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio:

Mark Fiore, Pulitzer-prize winning political animator, whose work appears on the San Francisco Chronicle website and elsewhere:

Lalo Alcaraz, cartoonist behind "La Cucaracha," a syndicated political cartoon strip:

Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post:

Joep Bertrams, cartoonist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands:

Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star in Indiana:

Satish Acharya, editorial cartoonist in Kundapur, India:

YGreck, cartoonist in Québec, Canada:

Graeme MacKay, editorial cartoonist for the Hamilton Spectator in Ontario, Canada:

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