Jean-Jacques Sempé was a French artist best known for his whimsical often ironic editorial illustrations. A regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine, Sempé’s simple lines and delicate colors ...

This was the world crafted by French artist and illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé for more than six decades — whimsical, playful and at times ironical — in anthologies, the popular “Le Petit ...

Jean-Jacques Sempé was a French Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1932. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Sauber have featured Jean-Jacques ...

For the magazine's art director Françoise Mouly he became a close friend. "When he came to New York, he knew how to find the human aspect of the city. Of course, ...

The artist, seen at an exhibit on “Le Petit Nicolas” in 2014. ... As opposed to the group brawls of “Little Nicolas,” many of Sempe’s adults are solitary city-dwellers.

Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist known in America for children’s book illustrations and for covers for The New Yorker portraying tiny, gentle people with big noses at poignant moments ...

Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose simple line drawings captured French life and won international acclaim on the covers of New Yorker magazine, has died on Aug.11, 2022. He was 89. (AP Photo ...

Friends and relatives honored the artist, who died last week at age 89, and his legacy. A private funeral was held at the city’s renowned Montparnasse cemetery.

Workers adjust a big frontpage of a New Yorker issue before Jean-Jacques Sempe’s funeral ceremony at the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church in Paris, Friday, Aug.19, 2022.

Family, friends and fans have paid tribute to French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, whose simple line drawings tinted with humor graced the covers of The New Yorker magazine and granted him ...