Comment lire les dessins de Pancho dans le 'France Antilles'

Abstract

This article makes us discover how a newspaper illustrator gives another view on the life of the Inhabitant of Martinique in front of the political and economic facts.
Bruno Villain, nicknamed Pancho, who settled in the early 1980s in Martinique (a French overseas department situated in the Caribbean island), publishes cartoons in various editions of the French-Antilles (in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Frenh Guyane). This daily paper, mostly read in this area, has become the suitable place for immediate communication and speaking. The drawings are placed in the last page in a plate composed of two or three illustrations entitled " Poil à gratter ". In this daily paper, the plate reminds us the most commented themes of the political facts and the funny situations illustrate isolated behaviours or identity symbols proper to the inhabitants of the French-speaking Caribbean islands. So Pancho's style combines caricature, invention, humor and mockery and can stimulate different categories of readers, in particular those who know the historic reality of French Antilles.