Cartoonist Lee Judge: We Are All Charlie Hebdo
To understand my response, it might help to know that a couple years ago I drew a cartoon about gun control that upset a lot of people. After it was published in the Kansas City Star I was sitting at home when I got a call from the newspaper’s publisher; I needed to leave my house.
The cartoon had started an internet firestorm and the paper was receiving thousands of emails, many of them threatening. Enraged readers had also posted my address and pictures of my house.
All things considered, the newspaper felt it would be wise for me and my family to move to a hotel for a while. It wasn’t the first time I’d been threatened and most of the time, I’ve felt confident that no one was going to follow through on their threats, but — as we’ve seen in Paris — you never know.