your intention to request a
draftsman to come and speak in
public
most of the time we draw because
we have a hard time talking
it was my case I was a child
extremely shy who spoke very
little and that some even thought
think we thought I was autistic
I grew up I’m still
shy I still speak very little
today people think rather than
I’m mean it’s not serious
that’s handy people do not dare
borrowed too much money and so I
organize my life around this
temperament first I married a
woman who talks a lot like that
compensate and then I got to a
alternative form of expression that me
can fill the lack of speech I
I started drawing and I became
gradually after being a
amateur mute I became a mute
professional by becoming a draftsman
release is what I can share
with you tonight it’s this way
which actually the drawing can be
a kind of communication crutch
that lets say things that the
speech sometimes has trouble expressing for
different reasons
a first reason that I can
think that explains some things
are almost unspeakable
it’s fright in general when you
are shocked by a situation and that
ask you to give me your
feeling tells you
the words I miss the words are
weak then the drawing can
actually come to the rescue a
totally appalling thing is the
death of children
a few years ago there was a
doll that were made in China
who was called polly pocket who were
manufactured with a defect there was
some pieces I think it was
the eyes or I do not know what
elements that stood out and the
children were playing at age 20 playing
vallet these pieces and began to
to choke
so the draftsman he tries to put
a little modesty in this situation and
to express what happened with
very few words I draw the doll
as it is in the imagery
commercial on its packaging
and then as we pulled it off the market
I make it gradually fade and
by dint of seeing her disappear
we think we guess another form that
comes from the pictogram that we see on
the poison bottles and there we
actually see that that
rather evokes death
another extremely complicated situation
to express these are the attacks that
gives a sense of course
extreme injustice
this drawing for example that was done
the day of an attack in ouagadougou and
which was put on social networks
has been the subject of several comments
and the very first comment that has
been done on facebook I think it’s
is this drawing says more than a thousand words
so that’s what we are trying to share
together tonight there are times when
we are strangled by the emotion he
try to use other forms
expression sometimes when there are
attacks one is led to express
emotion but there are also others
things to talk about
parallels that are not very easy to
develop into speech form at
moment of mourning
for example if we remember the 11th
September everyone has in memory
the twin towers in the process of
burn and appeared at that moment
a phenomenon that was a phenomenon
stigmatization of a population to
who are awarded and some
physical characteristics that have
showed some people the finger in
saying ah this is this community has
tendency to rejoice in his
entire situation then the
cartoonist what is he trying to
to do at some point where we want
not to do too much moralism so we want
not do too much big talk and pc
it is not the moment to speak either
a lot then at but this picture in
eyes in several looks
people
in this case they are children and we
sees that these children who have the
physical characteristics a little
stigmatize the girl in particular
veiled when they watch the attempt
September 11 are not at all
rejoice but goes out
obviously dramatically affected
like most people another
reason that sometimes the
speech is insufficient and we have
wrong to explain certain situations
it’s the complexity of things when
explain something to you
someone who does not seem to
understand you look at it then you
tell him but I have to make you
a drawing and well yes it’s not just
an expression of times it is useful to
To make a drawing
and as a cartoonist are we
ask, for example, to illustrate
economic concepts a bit complicated
and I had been asked to do a
drawing on microfinance what is
not a very happy subject because
that we generally imagine that all
drawings are meant to be humorous
so I use a spring that is the one
that we find both in the
European fables than in fairy tales
African is to represent the
characters the protagonists through
animals and since we talk about
finances I wonder in finance what
is the animal that represents the
negativity the wickedness it’s
obviously the shark the famous sharks
of finance then poverty in
my drawing is going to be embodied by a
naughty sharks and since I’m in
the water I’m forced to spin the
metaphor is so the operators
which will benefit from the
microfinance I’m going to represent them
in the form of fish but the
microfinance is addressing as its name
the indicated to micro entrepreneurs
microphones actors and so we say
this poor fish they would do better to
move away because he can not do
the weight in the face of poverty
except that the concept of microfinance
and give very small amounts
to very small actors but in
quite a large number
so we help several fish and then one
more and more important number of
fish that end up thanks to the
micro finance by representing a mass
likely to make the weight against
poverty
another reason that can explain
sometimes things are difficult
to say it’s just that the
things are sometimes forbidden to
to express sometimes there are simply
a real confiscation of speech
here in the drawing you see this code
that you all know especially if
you read the comics does it
to represent speech by a bubble
and there we actually see that the
word is in the primary sense of the term
entrusts
and by a military sometimes censorship
is not absolute there is some
form of freedom of expression but he
are some things that are a little
difficult to say at risk of being
accused of trial of intent are
sometimes even to stand trial by
example for offense to the head of state
there is a situation as an observer
journalistic that I saw in
several countries including the coast
of ivory especially the sudan before the
split is that sometimes countries are
divided because of a crisis because
of one it can be a civil war
it can be a rebellion that occupies
part of the territory and all
politicians the different camps
have the word peace in the mouth
worse in English and so this drawing I can
for example apply it to the case of the
democratic republic of the congo to
the time of the rebel laurent nkunda and
we see these two characters who are
give good conscience by talking about
peace so that in fact we know that
in their behavior they do not
that fuel the war so I
look at these two gentlemen who speak
of peace who speaks a lot of payroll
more and more peace and by dint of
talk about peace me I guess guess a
another word also in English that is
draws is behind the speeches of
peace is hiding in fact a behavior of
war war and there you see that the
drawing he of course like first
vocation to be a container of words
but it can also become a form to
which we will do will say maybe
something else and in very areas
different
this is a drawing on racism
at one point there is not very
a long time or in France some
people wanted to qualify the gravity
some racist insults like
bamboula or
banania and this drawing shows that at the
the bubble is a word container
racist and at the same time a form where
we see a monster with
very aggressive teeth the message being
so that racist speech is
almost as serious as violent
that the physical aggression of other cases
also can use this same
technical
we have here two characters who
represent a social negotiation
we have a worker and a boss who
officially are here to be
constructive but just
represent their bubble in a form
particular to understand who are
rather in a combat logic of
boxing
another reason why some
things are hard to say it’s
that sometimes there are simply
blockages at the language level for
literacy issues
inadequate
when working on media
written or simply because the
languages that confront each other are not
the same and all the actors who
seek to communicate do not speak
the same language
it’s an interesting thing to
then consider that the drawing is
practically a universal language and
that’s the people who take care of the
communication of awareness
have understood
here is for example an image that
awareness of the good uses of water
good hygiene practice
it’s not a drawing I did
it’s not a press cartoon but it’s
a drawing that I photographed in a
darfur refugee camp where
crossed many languages
different
if we just look at languages
internationals there were the Darfuri
who spoke rather Arabic there was
the Chadians who looked after them
that they spoke French rather
ong spoke english german and then he
there were all the local languages that
we can imagine
and so on a written support
walled for example
it was very helpful to make a
drawing without any word for it
can be understood by everyone
this is not a press cartoon but the
press drawing can use the same
technical
I worked for a long time
Italian press which published
systematically its contents in three
English Italian and French languages
we can translate a drawing but me
I was rather trying to make a
drawing without any word and one day I was
asked to address the issue of
after Gaddafi a few months later
Gaddafi
we felt that radical Islamists
risk is in any case been in
situation to take power
so I start with drawing
Gaddafi and then I’m in mind
very simple and very stupid
so as we said we knocked over
Gaddafi I physically spilled
Gaddafi and Gaddafi takes shape when
it is returned from a turbaned bearded
so there we could do from
this drawing a whole long article of
several pages to explain the
situation but the drawing essay of
summarize this sometimes also there are some
things that are difficult to say because
that they are the subject of a
hypersensitivity ehs we’re seeing since
a few years that issue
religious for example becomes more
in addition difficult to approach so
in any case quite independent and we
obviously reminds them to do them
business even caricatures of
mahomet which means that in this case
there the drawing is not always the
best way to appease the spirits
except to use the drawing so one
little bypassed and so a little
playful and here for example on the
representation of mahomet a drawing that
plays on the complicity that can exist
between a reader and the designer
recurrent in a newspaper and there we
invites the reader to caricature
himself the prophet in the manner of
charlie hebdo
I do not want to stop there because
otherwise we will not pay the drawing we go
to say that I laughed
so I’m still drawn
maybe somehow mahomet
but in a fun way
it’s like a game and there we
actually sees that if people connects
dots
they will fall exactly on the famous
mahomet drawn in charlie hebdo and
which had been the subject of several
covers especially after the attempt
of charlie hebdo
what is important is to do
pass messages and I think that’s
drawing passes several messages
it’s a message to the jihadists
up that tired us a bit that
should not forbid us to draw
mahomet but we try to play a little
to hide with them is a drawing
can be who also makes fun of
cartoonists because we feel
draftsman he is a little afraid to draw
mahomet he wants to rely on
readers and fend off responsibility
away from him and the designers have
not always a lot of self-mockery
so that’s important
and then I think the message the most
important is to tell each
individual who reads the newspaper in which
was this caricature that at the
question do I have the right to draw
mahomet everyone has the right to have a
different answer
the designer is not here to
impose an absolute truth so to
everyone to decide whether he will join the
points to represent mahomet all
religions obviously can do
the drawing object there is a drawing that
rather represents a religion
Christian
the idea again is not
to insult for free or to make a
drawing just to provoke someone
but to get a message across
message that was passing
when this drawing was published it was that
some groups of obedience
Christian rather use the name of
jesus to do business
I let you imagine what kind
group we can talk but so we have to
the confrontation between an image that is
of the order of religious iconography
with hands pierced with lore
hall of jesus and then at the same time
an imaging that is marketing
which is a graphic design that makes you think
at a certain brand of soda and then
obviously what is difficult to say
so maybe that’s what sometimes
hurts modesty we talked about
shyness at the beginning we can also talk
of modesty and so the drawing can
sometimes also explain some
sentimental situations
relationships between people this is a
drawing that at first glance is
extremely positive we see a man
who offers a bouquet to a woman
the situation is perfect except that we have
seen that at codifications in the
drawing and there is a very thing
important in the drawings this is the
framing
if we widen the framing we start to
distinguish something weird to
the back of the woman
it seems to be missing something at
level of his loincloth and elsewhere
notice that what is inside
of the bouquet strangely resembles this
loincloth there and we understand the bottom of the
sphere by discovering what is hiding
behind the back of the man who
obviously was not so in love
to the point of buying flowers he has
favorite cut out the loincloth for
seduce women at a lower cost
you already see it was the case too
in the drawing on the republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
what to say unspeakable things is
also sometimes say hypocrisy say this
who is not told the crisis spouse ‘can
obviously exist in relationships
love
we see here a fairly classic trio
you see that there are people who
recognize we have a woman
obviously sad helpless who
look at the one we can imagine if we
makes a comparison of age groups
we can imagine that it is her husband
middle and one expresses one’s thoughts by a
heart a little cracked him obviously
his attention is attracted elsewhere he has
also a heart but who has another
nature and the girl also has a
heart of another nature
so here we say what people do
say not because it’s forbidden
or too sensitive but because they have
not want to say it because at a
form of hypocrisy
and then obviously if we talk about
intimate relationships and difficulty
to express certain things
we obviously think about sexuality
who is in africa for the draftsman
of the press I believe the major taboo
we realize that when a draftsman
draw something to a character
little sexual he causes right away
an outraged reaction itself seems
panic so he tries to finish his
drawing quickly to make up and
it becomes something else
and it’s a little curious because we
imagine that normally to military
with a kalach is more dangerous than a
penis drawing but it’s not
always the case
and then to finish always sure
it’s on these notions another way
to express things that are not
says graphically
that’s another sentimental situation
with a couple situation that looks like
unfold quite
positive we see that the man drew
a heart on the ground so he has
obviously very good intentions
and there we can have another way
to see the thoughts hide which ones
thoughts are themselves
a wish of these people each
request is what you want what
I wish you want this
that I desire and it is by the
projection of the shadows of the characters
on the wall we will understand what
everyone has in mind the woman when we
cast his shadow on the wall we see
a woman with a big belly
so we imagine that she wishes that
this relationship leads to some
durable thing that will allow
possibly to bring a pregnancy
children a offspring
is that the thing to which
the man thinks I leave you
numbers and I leave you numbers
on foot
that’s how drawing can come to
say some things that are
forbidden to say things we have
bad to say because we have too much
of emotions and that’s how drawing
ultimately transforms a child very
shy in a little talkative speaker
thank you very much
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