"This resignation comes after the publication, Tuesday January 19, in the newsletter
Le Brief du Monde
, of a drawing by Xavier Gorce that we should not have published".
Here is what we can read in a press release published Wednesday, January 20 on the
World
website
.
Tuesday, a caricature dealing with incest and transidentity, produced by the designer of
Indégivrables,
was published in the morning newsletter of the great evening daily.
Vilified on social networks, then released by the management of
Le Monde
, Xavier Gorce announced, on Twitter, to end his collaboration with the daily, for which he had worked since the 1990s.
The controversy arose from two penguins discussing, quietly installed on the ice floe, the necessary degree of kinship to determine incest.
Trying in an offbeat way to deal with a serious and omnipresent subject since Camille Kouchner's revelations concerning her stepfather, Olivier Duhamel.
Deeming
"disproportionate"
the relentlessness
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