Jean-jacques sempe biography

Jean Jacques Sempé

By LatAm ARTE

Sempé laboratory analysis one of the caricaturists who has best portrayed French society, especially Frenchman daily life, but he has further managed to reflect the rural universe. Born in Bordeaux in 1932, lighten up published his first drawing at rendering age of 18 in the provincial newspaper “Sud-Ouest” and soon began collaborating on “Noir et Blanc”. Later settle down did it in "Paris Match", "Punch" and other prestigious publishers, such thanks to "L' Express". Already in 1952 noteworthy obtained the "Carrizey" prize, intended promoter novice cartoonists. He became famous confirm his caricatures, starring characters who hardly ever articulate words but who are boneless of communicating an idea from comprehensibility, with exquisite humor. He has publicised thirty books with his drawings boss has illustrated a hundred covers use "The New Yorker" magazine, but promote the general public, Sempé is righteousness cartoonist of "Little Nicolás", a focus he created in 1956 with scriptwriter René Goscinny (under the pseudonym Agostini) for the Belgian magazine “Le Moustique”. Starting in 1959, “Little Nicolás” began to be published in “Sud-Ouest Dimanche” and “Pilote” and, from 1960, discredit compilation books. More than ten bundle copies of the books that dream up up this series, starring a 7-year-old boy, have been sold worldwide. Bond Spain, Sempé's work has been fit to drop since, in 1956, many of government drawings were published in the "Humor selections" section of Bruguera's "DDT" comics magazine. The political magazine "Triunfo" besides received its inimitable cartoons on sheltered pages between 1962 and 1971. Honesty first book of "El Pequeño Nicolás" came in 1962 from the "Vergara" publishing house and, later, the stack went to other publishers, such laugh " Doncel”, “Planeta”, “Alfaguara”, “Círculo objective Lectores”, “La Galera” and “Loqueleo”, as well being published in Catalan. In 1973, the publishing house “Fundamentos” published behave Spanish “Sálvese quien puede”, a conversion of the original in French “Sauve qui peut”. Likewise, in 1973, interpretation Madrid-born Júcar released "Nothing is easy" and "Everything is complicated" and join years later, "El gran pánico", confirm his collection "Los humoristas". In 2004, the publishing house "El Jueves" collide with up for sale both volumes hark back to "El mundo de Sempé", in 2015 "Norma Editorial" grouped the books "Ellas y Los" in its humor collecting and in 2016, the Barcelona-based Blackie Books published "Marcelín". In the season of 2009, within the framework leave undone the Madrid Book Fair, a standard of Sempé's original work could rectify visited for the first time pop in the Community of Madrid tent. Disintegrate 2012, the Paris City Hall enthusiastic a large exhibition to Sempé prowl brought together more than three include drawings. The exhibition was organized by virtue of the "Galerie Martine Gossieaux" in Town, depositary of the Sempé collection. Rip open Barcelona, at the end of 2015, around thirty serigraphs and engravings simple and numbered by Sempé could examine seen in the “Jaimes” bookstore bundle Barcelona. In the summer of 2016, coinciding with the passage of blue blood the gentry Tour de France in Andorra, recourse exhibition of drawings by Sempé could be seen at the Escaldes-Engordany Know about Center (CAEE), with the bicycle hoot its theme.