Cartoonists react to Charlie Hebdo attack

A cartoon hangs outside France's embassy that reads in Spanish "The pencil is the most peaceful weapon, don't mess with humor" in solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.

Cartoonists around the world reacted to the attack at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo with powerful drawings worth thousands of words.

“Can’t sleep tonight, thoughts with my French cartooning colleagues, their families and loved ones,” David Pope, cartoonist for The Canberra Times in Australia, wrote on his Twitter feed.

Can't sleep tonight, thoughts with my French cartooning colleagues, their families and loved ones >#CharlieHebdo>pic.twitter.com/LqIMRCHPgK

— David Pope (@davpope) >January 7, 2015

In India, cartoonist Manjul drew a plane exploding in a fireball into the Eiffel Tower, its pointy top redrawn as the nib of an ink pen.

>#CharlieHebdo>#parisattack>#ParisShooting My >#cartoon>pic.twitter.com/XJwotKRyoQ

— MANJUL (@MANJULtoons) >January 7, 2015

Christian Adams’ cartoon for The Daily Telegraph in London showed a completely blank space with the heading- “Extremist approved cartoon.”

Tomorrow's@Telegraph >#cartoon . >#CharlieHebdo>#FreedomOfSpeech>pic.twitter.com/xDCws3K7R9

— Christian Adams (@Adamstoon1) >January 7, 2015

Another Telegraph cartoon showed one gunman saying to another- “Be careful, they might have pens.”

Here are some more:

>#CharlieHebdo>pic.twitter.com/9sCF1EN5DH

— banksy (@thereaIbanksy) >January 7, 2015

The 12 people killed in the terrorist attack in Paris on Wednesday included some of France’s leading cartoonists.