#laughededieu competition | Two Quebec cartoonists in Charlie Hebdo

Caricatures by two Quebec artists have found their place in the list of winners of the #rirededieu competition launched by the French media Charlie Hebdo to mark ten years since the massacre within its walls.

The Montreal painter Hubert Neault and the Lévis caricaturist Fleg (real name Christian Daigle) saw their drawings appear in the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo. On newsstands since Monday, the magazine commemorates 10 years since the massacre in its newsroom.

A few months ago, the French weekly launched a competition called #rirededieu. It aimed to collect caricatures from professional cartoonists. “All those who are tired of living in a society ruled by God and religion, those who are tired of being bombarded with so-called good and evil, those who are tired of all the religious leaders who dictate our lives, were therefore able to participate in our competition,” we can read on the weekly’s website.

Consult the winners of the #rirededieu competition

Two works by Mr. Neault were selected. The first shows a gun engraved with a cross, a Star of David and a crescent, pointed at the planet Earth. In the second, a hand emerges from a cloud, the index finger in the shape of a missile extended towards the ground.

The cartoonist Fleg, for his part, produced a work where God is depicted eating brains, with brainless humans of all origins at the bottom of the image. Christian Daigle was a cartoonist for The Sun and for Yahoo Québec.