Paris, January 7th 2015. By late morning, the Kouachi brothers, Saïd and Chérif, launch an attack against the redaction team of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Hooded, dressed in black and armed with Kalashnikovs, they decimate the redaction team, causing twelve deaths including eight journalists. This paper aims to study how Renald Luzier («Luz»), press illustrator at Charlie Hebdo, makes peace with death through the graphic novel Catharsis (2015). In other words, how do graphic novels manage to provide meaning to a traumatic experience? How do they participate, with a graphic experience, in making bonds between an unspeakable recent past, an aching present and a possible future? Can they be a way toward (re)construction of self? So many questions that build the essence of this paper, in which graphic novel are not seen as an illustration of a mourning process, but in their symbolic, imaginary and anthropological potentialities, where an illustrator, Luz, experience the death of others in his own life.