Don’t look. You won’t find them on digital kiosks or at newsagents. And for good reason : Destination burnout. The toxic manager’s guide, Serein! the magazine that lets justice do its job (with Luc Besson on the cover), or The Privilèges Review. We are not people like you (with an interview with François Fillon) only exist on Instagram. These are some of the titles, among a hundred fictitious and parody magazines, imagined in two and a half years by the comedian and DJ Grandpamini, a placid and cheerful fellow, 1.89 meters tall, 42 years old and fifty-two thousand followers.
Juan Loaiza, his real name, was inspired to create his nickname by one of the characters in the cartoon The Minipouss, broadcast during the 1980s in “Le Club Dorothée”. “I didn’t expect a joke between friends to be so successful,” rejoices the one who is still surprised to have had the honors of an invitation to the National Library of France, this year, as part of an exhibition devoted to “Press Pastiches” throughout history. Two of his covers were thus found among La Croax (a 1923 parody of The cross), The Monster, Laberration (diversions of daily newspapers The world And Release by the Jalons group, in 1985) or even The Gorafi (anagram of Figaro) which we no longer present.
When we meet Juan Loaiza, on November 22 over a Coke Zero in a café (aptly) named Le Triomphe, in Nation, in Paris, very close to his home, he has just posted, like every Wednesday, his latest cover : Unworthy children. Contempt, revenge and ingratitude. In the photo, a mother and her 10-year-old son, posing all smiles, breathing a family and advertising happiness quickly showered by the catchphrases of “a”: ” Emotional blackmail. “Be careful, mom, this hug may be the last!” » Or “Unable to afford an iPhone? Do your parents really love you? “. Myth of the child king, suffering at work, the rise of life coaches, impunity of personalities accused of sexual assault… no fault of the time, serious or less serious, escapes the mischievous eye of Grandpamini, who mocks “bad faith and what is left unsaid” of society, in a squeaky and schoolboy register.
It is the covers with a “vigilante” tone that are the most shared and commented on. “Through these jokes written in seven or eight words, no more, readers like to take revenge by proxy for a situation of injustice, he interprets. They function as an outlet. »
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