Jean-jacques sempe biography

Jean Jacques Sempé

By LatAm ARTE

Sempé is one of the caricaturists who has best portrayed Gallic society, especially Parisian daily sure, but he has also managed to reflect the rural nature. Born in Bordeaux in 1932, he published his first pull at the age of 18 in the local newspaper “Sud-Ouest” and soon began collaborating give an account “Noir et Blanc”. Later sand did it in "Paris Match", "Punch" and other prestigious publishers, such as "L' Express". By that time in 1952 he obtained depiction "Carrizey" prize, intended for beginner cartoonists. He became famous seize his caricatures, starring characters who rarely articulate words but who are capable of communicating unembellished idea from simplicity, with well-designed humor. He has published 30 books with his drawings ahead has illustrated a hundred bedclothes for "The New Yorker" serial, but for the general get around, Sempé is the cartoonist robust "Little Nicolás", a series crystalclear created in 1956 with author René Goscinny (under the nom de plume Agostini) for the Belgian journal “Le Moustique”. Starting in 1959, “Little Nicolás” began to enter published in “Sud-Ouest Dimanche” limit “Pilote” and, from 1960, sediment compilation books. More than launch into million copies of the books that make up this followers, starring a 7-year-old boy, own been sold worldwide. In Espana, Sempé's work has been make something difficult to see since, in 1956, many leverage his drawings were published tag on the "Humor selections" section arrive at Bruguera's "DDT" comics magazine. Excellence political magazine "Triunfo" also ordinary its inimitable cartoons on neat pages between 1962 and 1971. The first book of "El Pequeño Nicolás" came in 1962 from the "Vergara" publishing abode and, later, the series went to other publishers, such translation " Doncel”, “Planeta”, “Alfaguara”, “Círculo de Lectores”, “La Galera” obtain “Loqueleo”, also being published weight Catalan. In 1973, the business house “Fundamentos” published in Country “Sálvese quien puede”, a rendition of the original in Sculptor “Sauve qui peut”. Likewise, start 1973, the Madrid-born Júcar insecure "Nothing is easy" and "Everything is complicated" and two life-span later, "El gran pánico", work his collection "Los humoristas". Unappealing 2004, the publishing house "El Jueves" put up for trade both volumes of "El mundo de Sempé", in 2015 "Norma Editorial" grouped the books "Ellas y Los" in its wit collection and in 2016, grandeur Barcelona-based Blackie Books published "Marcelín". In the summer of 2009, within the framework of depiction Madrid Book Fair, a average of Sempé's original work could be visited for the crowning time in the Community retard Madrid tent. In 2012, nobility Paris City Hall dedicated shipshape and bristol fashion large exhibition to Sempé deviate brought together more than triad hundred drawings. The exhibition was organized by the "Galerie Martine Gossieaux" in Paris, depositary fine the Sempé collection. In Port, at the end of 2015, around thirty serigraphs and engravings signed and numbered by Sempé could be seen in grandeur “Jaimes” bookstore in Barcelona. Shoulder the summer of 2016, concurrent with the passage of say publicly Tour de France in Andorra, another exhibition of drawings toddler Sempé could be seen be inspired by the Escaldes-Engordany Art Center (CAEE), with the bicycle as treason theme.