Charb
| Stéphane Charbonnier | |
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Charb, 2 November 2011
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| Born | Stéphane Charbonnier 21 August 1967 Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France |
| Died | 7 January 2015 (aged 47) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Area(s) | cartoonist, journalist |
| Pseudonym(s) | Charb |
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Stéphane Charbonnier (French: [ʃaʁbɔnje]; 21 August 1967 – 7 January 2015), known as Charb ([ʃaʁb]), was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was assassinated by Islamist terrorists during the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015.
He worked for several newspapers and magazines, joining Charlie Hebdo in 1992 and becoming the director of publication in 2009. Due to the publication of Muhammad cartoons in Charlie Hebdo, Charb became subject to death threats from Islamists. From the time the magazine was firebombed in 2011, he lived under police protection until his assassination.
Stéphane Charbonnier was born in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on 21 August 1967 and raised in Pontoise. His mother worked as a secretary and his father worked as a technician for Postes, télégraphes et téléphones. His grandparents owned a grocery store in Pontoise. Stéphane's talent for drawing was discovered in school and he published his first drawings in Echo des collégiens at the age of fourteen. He continued to draw while studying at Lycée Camille Pissarro.
In the late 1980s he started working as a cartoonist. His work included creating cartoons for the newspaper Les Nouvelles du Val-d’Oise and a magazine for the Utopia (cinéma) in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône.
Later freelance work by Charb included cartoons for L'Écho des savanes, Télérama, and L'Humanité. He joined Charlie Hebdo in 1992 and was its editor-in-chief from 2009 until his death on 7 January 2015.
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