Mourners Scrawl Cartoons on Coffin of Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist

The funeral of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Bernard “Tignous” Verlhac wouldn’t have been complete without cartoons: he will be buried in a cartoon-scrawled coffin.

Friends and family went up to the famous cartoonist’s coffin during his service today and scribbled messages, images of pencils, and caricatures of Verlhac on it, resulting in a visually fitting homage to Verlhac and his career. Verlhac was one of the many cartoonists killed during a siege on the magazine’s office last week by a group of Islamic extremists, along with staffers and security officers.

“Our magazine will live, it will be a different magazine,” Charlie Hebdo colleague Corinne Rey said during a speech,according to Mashable. “You were never afraid, my Titi and be assured, we won’t be afraid either.”

Naturally, there were jokes on the coffin as well:

One drew an image of a panda bear being warned not to eat the bamboo coffin. “Shitty day,” the panda proclaims.

Another drew a survival kit for paradise: A bottle of liquor, a cigar and a pencil.

One wrote simply: “FRAGILE.”

Charlie Hebdo's cartoonist Tignous coffin. "Bamboo wood coffin. Do not eat. And the panda adds: Day of shit!" pic.twitter.com/mRluyukOsg

— Michel Bourgois (@FrenchAtheist) January 15, 2015

The funerals for two other cartoonists killed in the attacks, editor-in-chief Stéphane Charbonnier and lead cartoonist Jean Cabut, will be held later this week.

[h/t The Daily Mail]
[Image via BFMTV]

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