Bernard Jean-Charles Verlhac (21 August 1957 – 7 January 2015), known by the pseudonym Tignous (, from ), was a French

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. He was a long-time staff cartoonist for the French satirical magazine ''

Charlie Hebdo ''Charlie Hebdo'' (; ) is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. The publication has been described as anti-racist, sceptical, secular, libertarian, and within the tradition of left-wing radicalism ...

''. On 7 January 2015, Tignous was killed in the ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting.

Biography

Tignous was born in Paris on 21 August 1957. He studied drawing at the

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. After working in the

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field, Tignous began doing cartoons for ''L'Idiot International'', '' La Grosse Bertha'', and ''L'Événement du jeudi''. Tignous first began working at ''Charlie Hebdo'' in 1980, and then rejoined the weekly when it was reborn in 1992. He was also a contributor to the weekly news magazine ''

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'' and the monthly publication ''

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''. In addition, he drew for ''

Télérama ''Télérama'' is a weekly French language, French cultural and television magazine published in Paris, France. The name is a contraction of its earlier title: ''Télévision-Radio-Cinéma''. Fabienne Pascaud is currently managing editor. Ludovic ...

'' and '' L'Echo des Savanes''. Tignous was also active in the French role-playing world, with his illustrations featured in games like '' Rêve de Dragon'' and MEGA, and many illustrations for the magazine ''Casus Belli''. His work features in a 2015 cooperative card game, ''Les Poilus'' (''The Grizzled''), about the tragic and solitary experience of French soldiers in the trenches of the Great War. Tignous was a member of Cartoonists for Peace as well as the Press Judiciare, an association of French journalists covering the legal system. He was one of the founding sponsors of ''Clowns sans Frontieres'', the French affiliate of Clowns without Borders International, and participated in CSF projects in the Philippines, Burma, and Nord Pas de Calais. In 2010, he published a book featuring cartoons of his signature

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s to benefit the French chapter of the World Wildlife Foundation, which called him "a friend of the pandas and the earth."Le WWF France pleure Tignous, un ami des Pandas
WWF. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015. Tignous was the father of four children. He was buried in

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on 15 January 2015. The Franco-Lebanese jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf played during a ceremony in Tignous's honour held in the great hall of the municipality of

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Works

* 1991: ''On s'énerve pour un rien'' * 1999: ''Tas de riches'' * 2006: ''Le Sport dans le sang'' * 2008: ''C'est la faute à la société'' * 2008: ''Le Procès Colonna'' * 2010: ''Pandas dans la brume'' * 2010: ''Le Fric c'est capital'' * 2011: ''5 ans sous Sarkozy''

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Tignous page at Iconovox
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