Ten years after a series of deadly attacks in France which affected the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo with twelve people shot dead in cold blood by two terrorists, the satirical weekly persists and signs. In the issue of this Tuesday, January 7, 2025, caricatures of God created by cartoonists from all over the world, from South Africa to Australia, from Belgium to Chile, are published. These drawings are the result of a competition launched by Charlie Hebdo.
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Tatita Bizarro is an amateur Chilean designer and architect by profession. His drawing represents Jesus Christ as a teenager, lying on a cloud, cigarette in hand, on the phone with a friend. “ I have always noticed that Jesus is either depicted as a child or as an adult. The other stages of his life are never mentioned. So, it makes me laugh a lot to be able to draw him in a more adolescent way and as a rebel who attacks his parents. Here he talks about his father to his friend. He tells him he’s unbearable. The implication is that his father would be God”he explains.
At Chile, 12,000 kilometers from France, it is on social networks that the young man discovers the caricatures of Charlie Hebdo. Participating in this competition was obvious to him: “ In my opinion, Charlie Hebdo means freedom of expression and a sense of humor. I find the drawings and their satires very good. And today, I have the impression that we are going backwards. That it is more difficult to say what we think and that we have lost something rich which is spontaneity. Participating in this competition means, on the contrary, saying yes to freedom of expression, yes to humor, yes to drawing “.
The publication of his caricature in Charlie Hebdo is perhaps a turning point. Because if drawing was until now a hobby for Tatita Bizarro, he would like to devote more time to it, and why not make it his profession.
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