Plantu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Plantu
Occupation	Caricaturist
Date Of Birth	Mar 23, 1951(1951-03-23)
Age	73
Birthplace	Paris
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Pisces

Plantu Biography

Plantu is one of the most popular and richest Caricaturist who was born on March 23, 1951 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Jean Plantureux, born March 23, 1951 in Paris, is a French cartoonist who specializes in political satire. Since 1972, his cartoons have appeared in Le Monde.

Andre Fontaine, Le Monde’s head, began publishing Plantu’s cartoons every day in 1985. He believed that this would bring political satire back into French tradition.

In 1991 Plantu met Yasser Arafat during a showing of his cartoons in Tunis. Arafat liked Plantu’s cartoons so much that he drew a Star of David on a Plantu cartoon, colored it in and signed it. The following year, Plantu traveled to Israel and met Shimon Peres, whom he convinced to sign the cartoon as well. This was the first time that signatures from both the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israeli government had been affixed to the same document.

Le Monde changed its methodology in 1995, causing Plantu to lose control over the subject matter of his cartoons. In 1996, Plantu had a showing of his cartoons and sculptures at the Cour de cassation (French Supreme Court) in Paris. Later that year he received the Spanish Gat Perich (International Caricature Prize). Some of his drawings and sculptures were auctioned at the Drouot Hotel in Paris, and he received exposure in Argentina through the Alliance Française of Buenos Aires.

Plantu started working with Le Journal Phosphore in 1980. This relationship would last until 1986. Andre Laurens, Claude Lamotte and editor in chief, Le Monde, approached Plantu to draw cartoons for their Sunday edition. Plantu, along with Michel Polac, appeared on the TV show Droit de Reponse on TF1 in September 1987.

Plantu Net Worth

Plantu is one of the richest Caricaturist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Plantu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jean Plantureux was awarded his Baccalaureate by Lycee Henri IV in 1969. Although he had initially planned to study medicine, he quickly abandoned that goal and moved to Brussels to enroll in drawing classes at the Ecole Saint- Luc.

Plantu returned to Paris to try to sell his cartoons at the French daily newspapers. Bernard Lauzanne, then director of Le Monde, hired Plantu and his first cartoon about the Vietnam War was published October 1, 1972. Claude Julien, who was then the director of Le Monde Diplomatique began publishing Plantu’s drawings in 1974.

In 1988 Plantu received the Mumm prize for his cartoon “Gordji chez le juge”, followed by a prix de l’humour noir in 1989. In 1991, Plantu began to publish a comic in the weekly magazine L’Express, which allotted him its entire third page every week.

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Plantu’s art was featured in the Festival of the Caricature in Ankara, Turkey in 2001. In 2002, he met United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to discuss an upcoming international conference of news cartoonists in Paris. A thesis was published by Rémi Pézerat entitled “La signification politique des dessins de Plantu (1972-2000)”(The Political Significance of the Cartoons of Plantu (1972-2000)). Plantu celebrated the publishing of his 15,000th cartoon and his thirtieth anniversary with Le Monde, and launched his own website.

Facts & Trivia

Plantu Ranked on the list of most popular Caricaturist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Plantu celebrates birthday on March 23 of every year.

In 2004 his drawings were shown to the French National Assembly in February, and his 40th book, Ils pourraient dire merci! was published.