Cover artist RIP

Cover artist RIP

RIP

norman lebrecht

August 12, 2022

The French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, maker of more than 100 covers for the New Yorker, has died ‘en vacances’, aged 89.

He was especially fond of orchestras.

Comments

  • Lost and found says:

    “Without music I would have been even more crazy …”
    A wonderful man.
    RIP

  • yodi says:

    The triangle is harder to play than one thinks.

  • guest says:

    He was much more than cover artist – one of two fathers (the other was René Goscinny) of immortal petit Nicolas!

  • Oliver says:

    Merci M. Sempé. Votre humour et votre finesse sont éternels.

  • Joel Lazar says:

    And did wonderful cat drawings, too!

  • Ruben Greenberg says:

    He was especially fond of orchestras and also the jazz greats: Duke Ellington most of all. What a talent he had for capturing the essence of music-making. Thank you so much for thinking of him. Rest in peace, Sempé. So many people grew up with your cartoons.

  • Robert Eshbach says:

    An artist of beauty who touched the heart.

  • Hervé says:

    Il était le meilleur. RIP.

  • Jobim75 says:

    Sweet irony, nothing political, nothing mean, he will be missed….

  • Westfan says:

    I have a lovely little book of his drawings, out of print but available.https://www.amazon.com/Musiciens-Folio-French-Sempe/dp/2070412105

  • Greg Tiwidichitch says:

    They must’ve just performed Ravel’s Bolero.

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