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The Museum dei Fumetti in Milan is set to host an exhibition that will pay homage to Charlie Hebdo.

“We are all Charlie”, inaugurated Saturday, February 7th and open until March 15, sports cartoons and drawings that, after the attack in Paris, many authors, more than two hundred, created to remember the victims.

“I wanted to know about Charlie Hebdo, where he came from and the stories that inspired the drawings from those cartoonists who are unfortunately no longer with us,” says the museum’s director Luigi Bona, “Charb, Cabu, Wolinski, Tignous and Philippe Honoré; five pencils sharpened and broken by jihadist madness. Censorship is never the solution,” admits Bona, “If I buy Charlie Hebdo, I know what we’ll find.”

The exhibition is an important opportunity to reflect on freedom of expression, thanks to the presence of works by artists known worldwide.

Silver, Bruno Bozzetto, Leo Ortolani, Sio, Fabio Celoni and Silvia Ziche, cartoonists who, among others, have worked in the 90s with the magazine “Heart”.

“There were very bulky reasons that led me to make a design that would comment on that horrible massacre,” Bona explained to ilfattoquotidiano.it . “I cannot comprehend the fact that people can be killed just because they express an idea. “