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Jean-Jacques Sempé, usually known as Sempé (French:; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2022), was a French cartoonist. He is known for the series of children's books he created with René Goscinny , Le Petit Nicolas , and also for his poster-like illustrations, usually drawn from a distant or high viewpoint depicting detailed countrysides or cities. [ 1 ]
Aug 13, 2022 · Jean-Jacques Sempé, known as Sempé, in Paris in 2016 LEA CRESPI/PASCO. Following the death of Jean-Jacques Sempé on Thursday, August 11, we are republishing this interview with the cartoonist ...
Jul 30, 2023 · Biography: Sempé is one of the caricaturists who has best portrayed French society, especially Parisian daily life, but he has also managed to reflect the rural environment. Born in Bordeaux in 1932, he published his first drawing at the age of 18 in the local newspaper “Sud-Ouest” and soon began collaboratin.
Aug 18, 2022 · Jean-Jacques Sempé was an unparalleled observer of the human condition. The much-loved cartoonist, creator of New Yorker covers for three decades, died on August 11th, aged 89. Aug 18th 2022.
Jean-Jacques Sempé was a French cartoonist and illustrator, whose crowded cartoon panels gave gentle commentary on the absurdity and banality of everyday city life. Since the 1950s, his drawings - including sequential ones - have appeared in publications throughout France, including Sud-Ouest Dimanche, Ici Paris and Paris Match, but he also gained fame in the USA as cover illustrator for The ...
Aug 12, 2022 · Born on August 17, 1932 in Pessac, France, Jean-Jacques Sempé, the best known of the understated cartoonists, died on August 11 at the age of 89, his wife Martine Gossieaux Sempé told Agence ...
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Aug 18, 2022 · For most of his life, the French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, who has died aged 89, would draw a line at talking publicly about his chaotic and unhappy childhood. He was well into his 80s when he finally admitted that the cheerful schoolboy character who would become his most famous creation – Le Petit Nicolas – was a way of dealing with a period in his life that he described as “a ...
