Charlie Hebdo: Dave Brown's second cartoon in response to the atrocity

The Independent's cartoonist has stuck to the Charlie Hebdo tradition of defiance

Political cartoonist Dave Brown's take on the Paris attack for the Friday 9 edition of The Independent

Dave Brown's second cartoon in response to the Charlie Hebdo killings depicts the Eiffel Tower, stylised as a fountain pen, piercing a lone jihadist at its tip.

The cartoonist's first image, which filled the paper's front page today, won widespread admiration from across the world.

The cartoon produced by The Independent's Dave Brown following the Charlie Hebdo massacre

"I wanted my response to be true to the spirit of Charlie Hebdo. I knew they’d want the magazine to carry on, so it had to be a gesture of defiance. So I thought: I've literally got to draw a gesture. Hence the hand rising out of the newspaper," he said of his first cartoon after the killings.

"Originally I drew it for my usual slot on page three, but then it became the front page of today’s Independent, and I think that really made it stand out," he added.