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👋 Khulumkha!*Welcome to Friday, where Russia launches a new wave of airstrikes and drone attacks across Ukraine, thousands of JFK files are released, and a 1,500-fish aquarium explodes at a Berlin hotel. Meanwhile, we unpack a new scandal that has rocked the world of French comics this week.[*Kokbor...
La Covid-19? Plus personne ne peut le voir en peinture. Pour autant, la crise sanitaire n’a pas fait fuir le public des musées dans la cité des Remparts. Preuve en est devant les chiffres de fréquentation de cette deuxième saison estivale en mode coronavirus. Sans surprise, parmi les quatre sites
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 the United Nations, Kofi Annan (Nobel Peace Prize in 2001) organized a symposium in New York, in whi...
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 Tuesday, Xavier Gorce had reflected on the controversy with a drawing of two penguins. The smaller pengui...
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 survivors, and wrong for making light of incest. Gorce immediately quit the paper, citing “woke culture...