INTERVIEW
Thirty-seven years that one of his press drawings adorns one of the daily Le Monde every day. The cartoonist Plantu has known everything: the world of journalism that evolves, changes in business models and unfortunately, brothers killed for drawings deemed blasphemous. In L'Equipée sauvage on Europe 1, Plantu evokes the way he sees his profession.
"I would even go to the word artist"
When Plantu is asked how he describes himself, the trades collide: "cartoonist, I would go even to the word artist, journalist, and also editorialist, but Canada Dry version: there is the taste, flavor, but it's not editorial, "he says at the microphone of Europe 1. And despite the years and his long career, Plantu still struggles to feel legitimate. "I often feel scammed," he says.
Plantu exercises in France, in the world , with total freedom. But to qualify his colleagues based in Iran or China, in regimes where freedom of expression has nothing to do with France, he uses the word "resistant". "It makes sense to describe its press cartoonists," he says. "In China, Zhang Dongning is in prison because she made declinations of satirical caricatures on the subject of the pig."