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Le Monde in October 1972. His drawings were regularly published in the headlines since 1985. From 1980 to 1986, he also worked for the magazine Phosphore and since 1991 he has been publishing a weekly page in the magazine L’Express. On the same year, he won the « Rare Document Award » at the Angers Festival du Scoop for managing to append both signatures of Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres on the same drawing, a year before the Oslo Accords. In 2006, Plantu and former Secretary General of ...

January 21, 2021 PARIS (AFP) — A leading French cartoonist on Wednesday said he would no longer work for Le Monde after the newspaper apologized for a cartoon he drew that tackled a sex-abuse scandal. France’s intellectual elite was rocked this month by a claim that political commentator Olivier Duhamel sexually abused his stepson, prompting social media users to speak out under the hashtag #MeTooInceste. images © Xavier Gorce In a cartoon published in Le Monde’s newsletter on Tuesd...

French newspaper Le Monde has lost one of its most prominent cartoonists after apologising for a cartoon about incest that has been criticised for being transphobic. The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Caroline Monnot, issued an apology on Tuesday (19 January) for a cartoon by Xavier Gorce referencing a recent sex-abuse scandal among the French elite. The cartoon, also published Tuesday (20 January), faced immediate backlash online with critics calling it transphobic, insensitive to rape surviv...

Frances Top Newspaper Apologizes for Anti-Trans Cartoon, Artist Quits Le Monde published a cartoon mocking sexual assault and transgender identity. Frances leading newspaper has issued an apology for printing a transphobic cartoon. Le Monde published the offending cartoon Tuesday. In it, a smaller penguin asks a larger one, "If I was abused by the adopted half-brother of the partner of my transgender father who has now become my mother, is that incest?"  The artist, Xavier Gorce, was referri...

Le Mondes Celebrated Cartoonist Plantu To Bow Out After 50 Years By Carole GUIRADO, Jean-Louis DE LA VAISSIERE 01/22/21 AT 6:39 AM The celebrated cartoonist of Frances Le Monde daily Plantu said Friday that he would soon leave the paper after half a century of work that has seen him mock the elite in his country and elsewhere with bitingly acerbic drawings. The departure on March 31 of Plantu -- who has championed cartoons as a bastion of free expression -- comes as a freedom of speech deba...

French Senate approves draft sex assault law to protect minors after Olivier Duhamel scandal Several public figures have spoken out on the issue, including first lady Brigitte Macron France toughened laws on the rape of children Credit: AP Photo/Francois Mori The French Senate on Thursday approved a new draft law to protect minors from sexual abuse in the wake of a controversy about incest.  The draft law makes it a crime for an adult to inflict any act of sexual penetration on minors under 1...

Cartoonist resigns from French paper Le Monde in free speech row over incest Issued on: Le Monde newspaper headquarters in Paris. © Siegfried Forster / RFI 2 min French cartoonist Xavier Gorce has quit Le Monde after the newspaper issued an apology for publishing one of his cartoons earlier this week. The 18-year veteran of the centrist daily described his decision as "personal, unilateral and definitive". Advertising ...

Copies of the French newspapers Le Monde and Le Figaro at a newsstand in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, on Jan. 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Christophe Ena) PARIS (AFP) — A leading French cartoonist on Wednesday said he would no longer work for Le Monde after the newspaper apologized for a cartoon he drew that tackled a sex-abuse scandal. France’s intellectual elite was rocked this month by a claim that political commentator Olivier Duhamel sexually abused his stepson, prompting social media use...