Plantu retires

Plantu

Plantu retires Plantu in Le Monde, 5 December 1978 Jean Plantureux, better known as Plantu, has announced that he will soon be leaving the newspaper for which he has been drawing cartoons for 50 years. He is the second cartoonist to lose Le Monde this week, although Plantu has assured that his decision ... Read more

Cartoonist Xavier Gorce breaks with Le Monde for apologizing for a cartoon

El dibujante Xavier Gorce rompe con Le Monde por disculparse por una viñeta

The French cartoonist Xavier Gorce (1962) announced he was quitting Le Monde after the newspaper apologised for a cartoon about a sexual abuse scandal. In her apology to readers, Le Monde editor-in-chief Caroline Monnot said the cartoon should not have been published. The author said blunt on his decision: "I announce that I ... Read more

Erdogan, in the shadow of his caricature

Erdogan vs cartoonists

Erdogan, in the shadow of his caricature "Charlie Hebdo: You are bastards. You are sons of bitches. This is how he addressed Serdar ÇamTurkey's deputy minister of culture and tourism, to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at Twitter, The story is just another chapter in the perennial case known as the "Mohammed ... Read more

Terrorists

fascistas

Terrorists The photo of Paty's bloody head on the ground is still on the internet. Like so many other lurid photographs of other nameless people that are posted every day on sites dedicated to the dissemination of unscrupulous filth. You already know the story, you can read the details wherever you like. Samuel ... Read more

Espé, the cartoonist who was fired on his first day on the job

Espé, el dibujante que fue despedido en su primer día de trabajo

Espé's first and last cartoon in the new Tour de France section of the newspaper L'Humanité. French cartoonist "Espé" may have broken a record. He has been fired just after his first cartoon was published in a section that was inaugurated by the newspaper. Sébastien Portet (1974), who signs his name as "Espé", ... Read more