Jean-Jacques Sempé, conocido como Sempé, fue un caricaturista francés cuyo humor fino, sutil y alusivo, junto con un notable sentido de lo trivial, caracteriza toda su obra. Su pluma captura su visión tiernamente irónica de las debilidades humanas y las deficiencias del mundo. En colaboración con René Goscinny, creó una inolvidable serie de libros infantiles que sigue poblando nuestra imaginación. El arte de Sempé se distingue por sus expansivas y a menudo distantes o elevadas perspectivas, que representan paisajes rurales y urbanos detallados.
A Nicolás y sus amigos, el sonido que produce la campana cuando llega la hora del recreo les suena a música celestial. Y es que por fin van a poder poner en práctica todo los que se les ha pasado por la cabeza.
Nicolás tiene muchos amigos en el colegio, desde Agnan, que es el favorito de la maestra, hasta Alcestes, que siempre está comiendo. Con ellos se divierte, se pelea, compite y se maravilla cuando Majencio lanza pases mágicos en el aire?
Nicolás y sus compañeros han sobrevivido al curso escolar y felices y contentos se separan para iniciar las vacaciones. Incluso, contra todo pronóstico, Nicolás ha sido merecedor de un premio: el de la Elocuencia. Los padres de Nicolás sorprenden al niño con la noticia de que la familia va a pasar las vacaciones de verano en la playa. ¡Qué bien! Las olas, la arena, los juegos con los amigos... Claro que, cuando llueve, tienes que ser muy ingenioso para no aburrirte... Donde no hay manera de aburrirse es en el Campamento Azul, al que acude el pequeño Nicolás un año después. Puedes estar aterrorizado, pero ¿aburrirte? ¡Nunca!
The most extensive collection of cartoons by one of the world’s best‐loved illustrators, Jean‐Jacques Sempé.
Renowned New Yorker cover illustrater Jean-Jacques Sempé illustrates the quirky charm of France's capital and it's residents with his signature style and gentle sense of humor and irony. His drawings are famed for their striking use of pen and ink, their inimitable style, and most of all for their satire and tragic-comic vision. The 128 drawings in this charming portfolio are sweet and sentimental. They somehow manage to be gentle even when the topic is difficult. They probe the quirkiness of life in Paris and wordlessly pinpoint the quintessential features of the City of Light, creating a world peopled by lovers strolling along the Seine, culture mavens preening in the Louvre, and characters who are ready to see the comic and the light-hearted beyond life's problems. Anyone who has fallen in love with Paris will be sure to cherish this charming keepsake.
Jean-Jacques Sempé is equally adept at capturing the little indignities (and triumphs) of everyday life as he is at high farce. Everything is Complicated , the second collection of Sempé’s cartoons, features some of his favourite subjects, such as hapless tourists, pipe-smoking novelists and unruly schoolchildren, as well as people who choose to express their innermost feelings through the medium of the protest sign. These inimitable drawings and watercolours, accompanied by perfectly judged deadpan captions, are fresh, engaging and funny, and will be appreciated by cartoon connoisseurs and Francophiles as well as the general public.
A collection of illustrations by world-renowned cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe.
In his sixth album, Jean-Jacques Sempé explores the contradictions and absurdities of modern life through illustrations and cartoons. Originally published in France in 1970, "Highs and Lows" is now available in English for the first time, appealing to both cartoon enthusiasts and a wider audience.
This fifth album by Jean-Jacques Sempé includes familiar characters like artists and psychologists, alongside tyrannical computers and friendly aliens. With fresh humor and beautiful illustrations in Sempé's unique style, it will attract both cartoon enthusiasts and a broader audience.
The fifth book by Jean-Jacques Sempé to be published in English by Phaidon, Monsieur Lambert is a gentle, sophisticated and unmistakably French illustrated story for adults. In this short graphic novel , Sempé shows us a glimpse of life in a small Parisian bistro. The restaurant and its regulars are vividly brought to life in a series of drawings which, together with the handwritten speech bubbles and laconic texts, display Sempé’s usual unerring eye and ear for the telling details of human behaviour.
