 Spiegelman has described himself politically as " firmly on the left side of the secular @-@ fundamentalist divide " and a " 1st Amendment absolutist " . As a supporter of free speech Spiegelman is opposed to hate speech laws . He wrote a critique in Harper 's on the controversial Muhammad cartoons in the Jyllands @-@ Posten in 2006 ; the issue was banned from Indigo – Chapters stores in Canada . Spiegelman criticized American media for refusing to reprint the cartoons they reported on at the time of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in 2015 . 
