 In 2015 , after six writers refused to sit on a panel at the PEN American Center in protest of the planned " freedom of expression courage award " for the satirical French periodical Charlie Hebdo following the shooting at its headquarters earlier in the year , Spiegelman agreed to be one of the replacement hosts , along with other names in comics such as writer Neil Gaiman . Spiegelman retracted a cover he had submitted to a Gaiman @-@ edited " saying the unsayable " issue of New Statesman when the management declined to print strip of Spiegelman 's . The strip , titled " Notes from a First Amendment Fundamentalist " , depicts Muhammad , and Spiegelman believed the rejection was censorship , though the magazine asserted it never intended to run the cartoon . 
