Jean-Jacques Sempé
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Jean-Jacques Sempé (born August 17, 1932 in Bordeaux) is a French cartoonist.
Some of his cartoons are quite striking, but most are sweet and sentimental and somehow manage to be gentle even when the topic is difficult. He once drew a series called Le petit Nicolas, starting it in the 1950s, but he is best known for his poster-like illustrations.
His career started in France within the context of the Franco-Belgian comics industry. His "mute" watercolors or single image sketches, where the characters speak in pictures or not at all (but somehow manage to convey a rich story) slowly gained international attention. The cover illustration on The New Yorker magazine has been his work several times.
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