Kais al-Hilali, a thirty-four-year-old Libyan cartoonist, was shot and killed late last month while painting one of the political street murals for which he was locally famous. According to witnesses, he had just drawn a caricature of Muammar Qaddafi on a wall in Benghazi (above) when the bullet hit.
The network of international cartoonists is tight, and when a fellow artist dies unjustly, word travels fast. It saddens and enrages cartoonists, and their response is to draw.
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