Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (; 13 January 19387 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu (), was a French
comic strip artist and
caricaturist
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. He was murdered in the
January 2015 shooting attack on the ''
Charlie Hebdo'' newspaper offices.
Cabu was a staff cartoonist and shareholder at ''Charlie Hebdo''.
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Career
Cabu started out studying art at the École Estienne in Paris and his drawings were first published by 1954 in a local newspaper. The Algerian War forced him to be conscripted in the army
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for over two years, where his talent was used in the army magazine ''Bled'' and in '' Paris Match''. His time in the army caused him to become a strident anti-militarist and adopt a slightly anarchistic view of society.[Obituary]
in ''The Daily Telegraph
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'', 7 January 2015.
In 1960, after he left the Army, he became one of the founders of '' Hara-Kiri'' magazine. In the 1970s and 1980s, he became a popular artist, collaborating for a time with the children's TV programme '' Récré A2''. He continued working in political caricature for '' Charlie Hebdo'' and '' Le Canard enchaîné''.
His popular characters include ''Le Grand Duduche'' and ''adjudant Kronenbourg'', and especially ''Mon Beauf''. So spot-on was this caricature of an average, racist, sexist, vulgar, ordinary Frenchman that the word 'beauf' (short for "''beau-frère''", i. e., brother-in-law) has slipped into ordinary use. A 1973 drawing by Cabu attacking male politicians with the question "Qui a engrossé les 343 salopes du manifeste sur l'avortement?".("Who got the 343 sluts from the abortion manifesto pregnant?") gave the Manifesto of the 343 its familiar nickname, often mistaken as the original title.
In February 2006, a Cabu cartoon which appeared on the cover of '' Charlie Hebdo'' in response to the Danish cartoons affair caused more controversy and a lawsuit. It depicted the Muslim prophet Muhammad under the caption "Muhammad overwhelmed by fundamentalists", crying "''C'est dur d'être aimé par des cons''!" ("So hard to be loved by jerks!").
From September 2006 to January 2007, an exhibition entitled ''Cabu and Paris'' was organised at the Paris city hall
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Death
Cabu was killed, along with seven of his colleagues, two police officers, and two others, on 7 January 2015 in the ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting when al-Qaeda gunmen stormed the newspaper's offices in Paris.
5 June 2016
Personal life
Cabu was the father of the French singer/songwriter
Mano Solo (24 April 1963 – 10 January 2010).
He was succeeded by two unnamed relatives. His tombstone read... "the man who gave every moment a shot..." in
Occitan.
Works
*''Le grand Duduche'' series :
** ''Le grand Duduche'' (1972) Dargaud
** ''Il lui faudrait une bonne guerre !..'' (1972) Dargaud
** ''Les aventures de madame Pompidou'' (1972) Square
** ''L'ennemi intérieur'' (1973) éd. du Square et Dargaud
** ''Le grand Duduche en vacances'' (1974) éd. du Square
** ''Passe ton bac, après on verra !'' (1980) éd. du Rond Point
** ''Maraboud'ficelle'', scénario de
William Leymergie
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(1980) Dargaud
** ''À bas la mode !'' (1981) Dargaud
** ''Le Grand Duduche et la fille du proviseur'' (1982) Dargaud
*''Le journal de Catherine'' (1970) – éd du Square
*''Mon beauf'' (1976) éd du Square
*''Catherine saute au Paf'' (1978) éd du Square
*''Inspecteur la bavure'' (1981) Albin Michel
*''Le Gros blond avec sa chemise noire'' (1988) Albin Michel
*''À consommer avec modération'' (1989) Albin Michel
*''Mort aux vieux !'' (1989) Albin Michel
*''Cabu au Canard Enchaîné'' (1989) Albin Michel
*''Tonton la-terreur'' (1991) Albin Michel
*''Adieu Tonton'' (1992) Albin Michel
*''Les Abrutis sont parmi nous'' (1992) Albin Michel
*''Responsables mais pas coupables !'' (1993) Albin Michel
*''Secrets d'État'' (1994) Albin Michel
*''Les Aventure épatantes de Jacques Chirac'' (1996) Albin Michel
*''Vas-y Jospin !'' (1999) Albin Michel
*''À gauche toute !'' (2000) Albin Michel
See also
*
List of journalists killed in Europe
References
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1938 births
2015 deaths
Assassinated French journalists
Charlie Hebdo people
Comic strip cartoonists
French editorial cartoonists
French Army personnel
French cartoonists
French comics artists
French caricaturists
French military personnel of the Algerian War
Journalists killed in France
People from Châlons-en-Champagne
Terrorism deaths in France
Victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting
20th-century French journalists
21st-century French journalists