Tag Archives: Paris

The Week

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, current affairs, journalBy Matthias Wivel 12 January 2016

The week in review As is always the case, lots happened this week, but my preoccupation continues to be the implications of the 7 and 9 January 2015 murders in Paris, or at least what they are coming to represent. As Kenan Malik laments in his excellent op-ed piece for GÃ¶teborg-Posten, the initial wave of…

Still at large

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, current affairsBy Matthias Wivel 7 January 2016

Today, and on Saturday, it happened a year ago. In some ways it wasn’t all that new, nor unexpected — jihadist terrorist attacks have happened all over Europe with increasing frequency for the last 10-15 years, and several lower key attempts had been made to silence Charlie Hebdo. In fact, it remains scandalous that they…