Laurent Sourisseau

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Laurent Sourisseau

Laurent Sourisseau , pseudonym Riss (born September 20, 1966 in Melun ) is a French cartoonist and caricaturist .

Life

After studying law, Laurent Sourisseau began his career as a cartoonist in 1991 with his first publications in the satirical magazine La Grosse Bertha . When the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was revived in 1992 , he started working for the magazine and also assumed managerial positions over the years. Most recently he acted as deputy editor Stéphane Charbonnier .

When Charlie Hebdo shooting on January 7, 2015 Sourisseau was present in the newsroom. He was hit by a bullet in the right shoulder and survived the assassination attempt by pretending to be dead. He was then taken to the hospital. Charbonnier and eleven other people were killed, most of them employees of the magazine.

Despite his injury, the cartoonist contributed drawings to the first post-attack edition of Charlie Hebdo , which appeared on January 14th. On January 19th it was announced that Sourisseau would take over the management of the magazine as directeur de publication together with editor-in-chief Gérard Biard.

Works

  • Les grands procès par Charlie Hebdo: Le procès Papon , 1998
  • Mémé femme pratique , 1999
  • Le Tour de France du crime , 2000
  • Presidential 2007: Carnet de campagne de Charlie Hebdo with Anne-Sophie Mercier, 2007
  • J'aime pas l'école , 2007
  • Le Rêve américain expliqué aux mécréants , 2007
  • Ma première croisade, Georgie Bush s'en va t-en guerre , 2008
  • Obama, what else? with Jean-Luc Hees, 2009
  • Hitler dans mon salon. Photos privées d'Allemagne 1933 à 1945 , 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Survive, stand up, continue drawing derstandard.at, January 20, 2015
  2. ↑ Laurent Sourisseau wants to reinvent “Charlie Hebdo” fr-online.de, January 23, 2015
  3. ^ The first issue after the attack tagesspiegel.de, January 14, 2015
  4. ↑ Le dessinateur Riss devrait succéder à Charb à la tête de “Charlie Hebdo” liberation.fr, 19 January 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sourisseau, Laurent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cartoonist and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Melun