"Perhaps most famous in the English-speaking world for his instantly recognisable New Yorker covers, French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe is known and loved worldwide, with more than 20 collections of drawings published in 30 countries. His inimitable style, flair for satire and tragi-comic vision place him on a par with the American cartoonist James Thurber. Like every great artist, Sempe has created a world above and beyond specific cultural and political realities, a world populated by psychoanalysts, housewives, concert pianists, baffled lovers, dreamy married couples, long-faced, aquiline-nosed depressives who yearn to meet their maker in an unyielding, disinterested universe. Cats ponder incomprehensible human ways, dogs groove to Walkmans and elderly women nag the Higher Power about their unsavoury in-laws." Independent columnist Miles Kington, whose appreciation of Sempe introduces...
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