Plantu tells about his handover to Cartooning for Peace
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Press cartoonist Plantu, honorary president of Cartooning for Peace, during a previous visit to RFI.
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By: Steven Jambot Follow |
Simon Decreuze Follow
49 mins
Plantu is one of the most famous French cartoonists, known in particular for having drawn daily on the front page of the newspaper
Le Monde
since 1985. In
L'atelier des medias
, he returns to the announcement of his retirement, and its transmission to the collective he created fifteen years ago: Cartooning for Peace.
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In December 2010, in
the media workshop
,
Plantu
declared: “
I want to pass the pencil back to a young person who will replace me on the front page of Le Monde.
A little over ten years later, the famous French press cartoonist is back on the RFI media show after having just
retired from
Le Monde
after nearly five decades of collaboration.
It is the
Cartooning for Peace
association
, an international collective of press cartoonists that he created in 2006 with the Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan (1997-2006), which takes its continuation on the front page of the daily.
At the microphone of
the media workshop
, Plantu looks back on the creation of this NGO whose missions are to promote press cartoons, defend cartoonists threatened in the world but also intervene in schools and penitentiaries to teach about press cartoons, cartoons and more generally freedom of expression.
Plantu explains how the partnership was built between
Le Monde
and the NGO - of which he is now honorary president - and how the drawings will be proposed by designers from 54 different countries.
“
What's interesting is that they don't agree on anything, but they talk to each other about everything,
” says Plantu.
"
Leaving the newspaper Le Monde makes me a little pained in the heart (...) but being replaced by the friends and friends of Cartooning for Peace, it's breathtaking, it's a victory I did not expect
», He explains, he who for a long time feared that the box of his drawing would give way to a topical photo.
In this program, Plantu also explains in detail his approach and his convictions as a cartoonist passionate about international news.
He also reacts to a vocal note and a question sent to RFI by Franco-Burkinabè cartoonist
Damien Glez
.
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