Is America ready for Charlie Hebdo? French weekly launches a U.S. project.

By James McAuley October 4 at 3:00 AM

PARIS — For Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau, a cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo, the morning of Jan. 7, 2015, was just another Wednesday at the office until, all of a sudden, it wasn’t.

In a brutal attack that shocked France and the world, two brothers, Islamist terrorists, burst into the offices of perhaps the world’s most famous satirical newspaper and opened fire on the journalists working inside, killing 12. Sourisseau, now majority shareholder and publishing director, was shot in the shoulder. For the past two years, he has rarely been without bodyguards, even to walk in the street.

By all accounts, “Charlie” — as the newspaper here is known — is still resoundingly Charlie: either a sacred bastion of free speech or a vehicle of gratuitous and even cruel offense, depending on whom you ask. But as part of its journey away from the horrors of Jan. 7, Charlie Hebdo now has set its sights on a different target: the United States — specifically, that of President Trump.

On Oct. 4, the newspaper will release a lengthy report in English on the so-called American resistance, with a particular eye to what remains of the U.S. left. The project, titled “Feeling the Burn: The Left Under Trump,” will appear online in weekly installments in the form of a graphic nonfiction novel, which will permit the newspaper to continue with its visual trademark: caricatures and cartoons.

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