His ink cartoons were often set in a mythical mid ... As opposed to the group brawls of “Little Nicolas,” many of Sempe’s adults are solitary city-dwellers. Two lit apartments on a darkened ...

Jean-Jacques Sempé, the iconic French illustrator and cartoonist best known for his wispy and intricately detailed drawings of French life, as well as having drawn more than 100 New Yorker covers ...

He simply could not have done anything else meaningful, he thought. And he turned out to be quite successful with his cartoons. His books have sold millions of copies and have been translated into ...

Sempe's favourite subjects were children, trees, cats, musicians and life in Paris and New York. His cartoons rarely used text to make wry comment on big-city life. A November 2015 New Yorker ...

In the past fifty years, many of J. J. Sempé’s hundred and twelve covers have celebrated the gratifications offered by la petite reine, his beloved bicycle. With a fragile and delicate line ...

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Sempe's favourite subjects were children, trees, cats, musicians and life in Paris and New York. His cartoons rarely used text to make wry comment on big-city life. A November 2015 New Yorker ...