He considered drawing the prophet of Islam as a terrorist humorous: Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2012, and this cartoon caused outrage at that time.
He was born in 1938. In 1960, he joined the Hara-Kiri magazine, which pioneered the magazine. He had been pioneering the striped interview since the 1970s. He worked on the "Right to Answer" program on television. He was the creator of the villain Mon Beauf. He was a jazz music enthusiast.
Cartoonist Cabut started making his first drawings in 1954.
After leaving the army in 1960, he became one of the founders of Hara-Kiri magazine.
Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (13 January 1938 – 7 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu, was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices. Cabu was a staff cartoonist and shareholder at Charlie Hebdo.
He made children's TV programs in the 1970s and 1980s. He became quite famous during this period.
Finally, he continued to work for Charlie Hebdo magazine.
A newspaper called Jyllands Posten in Denmark published a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad drawn by him on September 30, 2005. In that cartoon, the prophet of Islam was shown as a terrorist. The cartoon drew a reaction from the Islamic world. Some countries in Europe also included the cartoon in their pages to support the Danish newspaper. Cabut also supported these cartoons.
On January 7, 2015, armed terrorists raided Charlie Hebdo's building in Paris and killed 12 people. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi of Algerian origin. The organization announced that "revenge was taken" for the magazine's publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.