“I will not be Charlie Hebdo but I will always be Charlie. “ It is with these words that the designer Luz announced Monday, May 18, in an interview with Libération his intention to leave the team Charlie Hebdo .
The designer says “swallowed up by a thousand things, grief, pain, anger,” that prevent it says -he, to be interested in the news. “This is a very personal choice,” , he says, while announcing the layoff of journalist Zineb El Rhazoui last week, had revived tensions in drafting the “survivors”, faces the challenge of rebuilding an amputee team since the attack on 7 January, and the influx of money that had been paid to them in support.
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A few days before his interview with Release – which hosts always team Charlie Hebdo pending his next move to new premises – Luz had told the World that finding “some funny ideas about French policy “asked today greatly from ” energy “. “I realize that French policy, apart from the rise of the FN is particularly uninteresting,” had he thus explained. “It’s always the case, but took refuge behind the principle that ridicule remains a good humorous plot. There, I have a little trouble … “, he confided.
” This is also because “Charlie” is now at the heart of political debate. It is difficult to draw as a subject. “
At the end of April already, the designer had announced in Inrockuptibles that he no longer would draw the character of Muhammad, including that he had bitten into a” “The first issue of Charlie Hebdo released after the attacks of January. “I’m tired, like that of Sarkozy. I will not spend my life draw “, he explained then
Libération , he says.
“Each loop is torture because others are gone. Spend sleepless nights to convene the missing, to wonder what Charb, Cabu, Honore Tignous have done is exhausting. “
It also ensures that ” this reflection on the departure date long ago “, but after the attacks he ” followed by solidarity, to let anyone down. There were not many people to draw. ”
“ If the news does not inspire you, you can always draw, it’s almost Pavlovian, but you will repeat an idea that you have already done. “
” This idea of departure , he added in Libération , is also in this anguish: the fear of being wrong. “ In World and he mentioned the wish of ” move on “ and move away from a form of professional routine.
“After twenty-year career, it was nice to experiment with new forms of expression, we end up locked in a kind of routine” , explained one who publishes Wednesday Catharsis, personal drawing album, he says, did him good. “For the first time, I was not afraid of a blank page” , he confides in Liberation.
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