Hundreds of cartoonists have taken to the internet to show off their own poignant pieces of work following the terror attack and massacre in Paris yesterday at French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Using the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie they shared powerful and satirical sketches, hitting back at the terrorists who claimed multiple lives and advocating for free press, denouncing violence and mourning their innocent colleagues.

Pens or pencils were used in many of the drawings to represent the victims, with some depicting a sharpened pencil to represent retribution against its attackers.

Banksy added his own response to Instagram, gaining a huge 82,000 likes in six hours on the social media platform.

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Supportive cartoons came from all over the world, from countries that included India, Spain, Brazil and Egypt amongst others.

Carlos Latuff of Brazil's drawing shared a different message, with two gunmen drawn shooting into a building labelled as the Charlie Hebdo headquarters, but the bullets shown travelling through the office and into an Islamic building, representing how their attack is damaging on the whole to the religion and portrayal of Islam.

One cartoonist - the Dutch Ruben Oppenheimer - went as far as to compare the events to those of the September 11 attacks on the New York World Trade Centre, with his cartoon showing a plane flying towards two erected pencils.

The paper's editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, who was the first to be killed in the attack along with his police bodyguard, had said back in 2012: "I would rather die standing than live kneeling", a year after the building had been firebombed in a terror attack after they published something in regards to the Prophet Mohammed.


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