A lone cyclist crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in the rain. A black cat sits contently on the knobby end of a banister. A solitary summer beachgoer does a handstand at dawn. Each drawing is shown from ...

Françoise Mouly interviews the French artist J. J. Sempé’s widow, Martine Gossieaux, about “Morning Music,” Sempé’s cover for the September 5, 2022, issue of The New Yorker.

Born on August 17, 1932 in Pessac, France, Jean-Jacques Sempé, the best known of the understated cartoonists, died on August 11 at the age of 89, his wife Martine Gossieaux Sempé told Agence ...

Wide Angle The Magnificent Bicycles of Jean-Jacques Sempé The whimsical French cartoonist captured all the way stations of life, and how we moved between them.

Jean-Jacques Sempé, the iconic French illustrator and cartoonist best known for his wispy and intricately detailed drawings of French life, as well as having drawn more than 100 New Yorker covers ...

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 ...

French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, who won international acclaim with a series of more than 100 drawings for the covers of The New Yorker magazine, has died at the age of 89.

Jean-Jacques Sempé, known as Sempé, in Paris in 2016 LEA CRESPI/PASCO. Following the death of Jean-Jacques Sempé on Thursday, August 11, we are republishing this interview with the cartoonist ...

Jean-Jacques Sempe in 2015 GI Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist best known for the Le Petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas) children’s books, died Thursday. He was 89.

Outside the church, a poster of Sempé’s first New Yorker cover stood next to a black-and-white portrait of him festooned with flowers. The Aug. 14, 1978 cover depicted the façade of a New York ...

France pays homage to beloved New Yorker cartoonist Sempé Family, friends and fans have paid tribute to French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, who died last week at age 89 ...