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Jean-Jacques Sempe

Jean-Jacques Sempe (1932 - 2022) was active/lived in France.  Jean Jacques Sempe is known for Cartoons for New Yorker magazine, children's book illustrations.

“Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89,” Obituary, The New York Times by Robert D. McFadden, August 11, 2022

Beloved in France and popular around the world, he drew more than 100 covers for The New Yorker in an association that began in 1978.    ?

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 on Thursday. He was 89.

His wife, Martine Gossieaux Sempé, announced the death to Agence France-Presse. His biographer, Marc Lecarpentier, said Sempé — as he signed his work and was known universally — died at a vacation home, but did not specify where that was, AFP reported. Sempé had a home and studio in Paris.

In a nighttime panorama of sleeping city skyscrapers, Sempé illuminated a ballerina in a window. On the soaring   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9444 characters.]  Artist bio

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