Jean-Jacques Sempé Book order

The most extensive collection of cartoons by one of the world’s best‐loved illustrators, Jean‐Jacques Sempé.

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.

In this collection of classic stories, the mischievous French schoolboy Nicholas faces a series of humorous challenges. His teacher, Old Spuds, forbids them from playing a new game, while a candy store lady denies them a chocolate bar. Additionally, Nicholas's friend Jeremy struggles with the arrival of a new baby brother, adding to the group's antics. The tales highlight the playful dynamics of childhood and the everyday obstacles that Nicholas and his friends navigate with cheeky resilience.

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.

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.

"Nicholas Again" is the second book in a five-part series about a charming schoolboy, Nicholas, who often finds himself in trouble. Written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, it depicts the humorous adventures of Nicholas and his friends, captivating readers for over forty years.

This hardback notebook, illustrated by renowned New Yorker artist Jean-Jacques Sempé, features cartoons on psychoanalysis and includes lined and blank pages for jotting down thoughts. The illustrations in "Notes from the Couch" humorously explore the complex relationships between therapists and their patients.