'Les Aventures de Liliane Bettencourt'.
Laurent Sourisseau, who signs with Riss, is a French cartoonist, best known for his work for L'Écho des Savanes and Charlie-Hebdo. His political cartoons appear regularly on the cover of Charlie Hebdo since 1992, and he serves as chief editor since 2009. On 7 January 2015, he survived the terrorist attack on the magazine's offices, but was injured with a bullet in the shoulder.
'L'Écho des Savanes', 2006.
Riss' topical cartoons and comics have regularly covered French politics and president Nicolas Sarkozy in particular. He has made several comics in collaboration with Philippe Cohen and scriptwriter Richard Malka, tackling Sarkozy. As a courtroom sketch artist, Riss has also followed criminal trials for Charlie Hebdo and the press, which resulted in publications like 'Le Procès Papon' and 'Le Procès Touvier', and the book 'Le Tour de France du Crime'. Other books by Riss include works about Barack Obama, the American Dream, Hitler and Liliane Bettencourt - the latter in cooperation with Laurent Léger.
Cover illustrations for Charlie Hebdo nr. 1112 (12 November 2013) and 1027 (22 February 2012). The first cover refers to the then-recent maritime disaster of the Lampedusa, a ship that carried many immigrants trying to flee to the West, but sank. Far-right party leader Marine Le Pen (of Le Front National) grins, because, as the description reads: "The Mediterranean Sea applies Le Front National's program." The second cover depicts French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni, poking fun at their luxurious lifestyle, while pretending to be "of the people". The cartoon paraphrases the first line of the revolutionary song L'Internationale ('Debout Les Damnés de la Terre', or 'Arise, ye damned of the Earth'), but here changed to 'Debout Les Gourmettes de la Terre', or 'Arise ye bracelets of Earth').