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  1. Aug 11, 2022 · Aug. 11, 2022. Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist known in America for children’s book illustrations and for covers for The New Yorker portraying tiny, gentle people with big noses at ...

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  2. Aug 22, 2022 · J. J. Sempé, who died on August 11th, created a hundred and thirteen covers for the magazine, starting in 1978. Published in the print edition of the August 29, 2022 , issue, with the headline ...

  3. Aug 18, 2022 · Sempé was born at Pessac near Bordeaux, in south-west France, the result of his teenage mother Juliette Marsan’s affair with her boss while she was working as a secretary. Marsan handed her infant son to foster parents but took him back when he was three to live with her and her new husband, Ulysse Sempé, a travelling salesman, who was an alcoholic.

  4. Aug 18, 2022 · A t the edge of the gigantic sea, his clothes left in a pile, his arms hugging his shivering body, a frail, tiny figure wondered whether to take the plunge. In an immense plain, under a huge black ...

  5. NEW YORK, NY.-. Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist known in America for children s book illustrations and for covers for The New Yorker portraying tiny, gentle people with big noses at poignant moments, often dwarfed by monumental backgrounds, died Thursday. He was 89.

  6. Aug 12, 2022 · Sempé said that the same year, he "joined the army. [Can you believe it!] It was the only way to choose where you were posted. I tried everything to stay in Paris. I was ready to do anything, and ...

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  8. Aug 11, 2022 · Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist best known for the Le Petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas) children’s books, died Thursday. He was 89. The mischievous schoolboy who is constantly getting ...

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