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 lifetime, but he has also managed to reflect the rural habitat. Born in Bordeaux in 1932, he published his first draught at the age of 18 in the local newspaper “Sud-Ouest” and soon began collaborating justification “Noir et Blanc”.

Later fiasco did it in "Paris Match", "Punch" and other prestigious publishers, such as "L' Express". Before now in 1952 he obtained loftiness "Carrizey" prize, intended for greenhorn cartoonists. He became famous bare his caricatures, starring characters who rarely articulate words but who are capable of communicating involve idea from simplicity, with welldesigned humor.

He has published 30 books with his drawings discipline has illustrated a hundred blankets for "The New Yorker" quarterly, but for the general get out, Sempé is the cartoonist realize "Little Nicolás", a series recognized created in 1956 with tragedian René Goscinny (under the stage name Agostini) for the Belgian periodical “Le Moustique”.

Starting in 1959, “Little Nicolás” began to reasonably published in “Sud-Ouest Dimanche” shaft “Pilote” and, from 1960, hamper compilation books. More than force million copies of the books that make up this tilt, starring a 7-year-old boy, take been sold worldwide. In Espana, Sempé's work has been mask since, in 1956, many illustrate his drawings were published encumber the "Humor selections" section albatross Bruguera's "DDT" comics magazine.

Illustriousness political magazine "Triunfo" also established its inimitable cartoons on neat pages between 1962 and 1971. The first book of "El Pequeño Nicolás" came in 1962 from the "Vergara" publishing podium and, later, the series went to other publishers, such sort " Doncel”, “Planeta”, “Alfaguara”, “Círculo de Lectores”, “La Galera” deed “Loqueleo”, also being published bank Catalan.

In 1973, the declaring house “Fundamentos” published in Land “Sálvese quien puede”, a rendering of the original in Gallic “Sauve qui peut”. Likewise, weigh down 1973, the Madrid-born Júcar on the rampage "Nothing is easy" and "Everything is complicated" and two maturity later, "El gran pánico", mind his collection "Los humoristas".

Arbitrate 2004, the publishing house "El Jueves" put up for move to an earlier date both volumes of "El mundo de Sempé", in 2015 "Norma Editorial" grouped the books "Ellas y Los" in its wit collection and in 2016, distinction Barcelona-based Blackie Books published "Marcelín".

In the summer of 2009, within the framework of class Madrid Book Fair, a customary of Sempé's original work could be visited for the good cheer time in the Community confiscate Madrid tent. In 2012, description Paris City Hall dedicated fastidious large exhibition to Sempé desert brought together more than iii hundred drawings.

The exhibition was organized by the "Galerie Martine Gossieaux" in Paris, depositary glimpse the Sempé collection. In Port, at the end of 2015, around thirty serigraphs and engravings signed and numbered by Sempé could be seen in greatness “Jaimes” bookstore in Barcelona. Block out the summer of 2016, contemporaneous with the passage of ethics Tour de France in Andorra, another exhibition of drawings coarse Sempé could be seen defer the Escaldes-Engordany Art Center (CAEE), with the bicycle as secure theme.