Sempé was born in Bordeaux on August 17, 1932. At 17, he rode a bicycle for a wine broker.In 1960, he started the adventure of little Nicolas with Goscinny, creating an unforgettable gallery of portraits of "awful jojos who line our imaginations" (dixit Goscinny).His fine, subtle and allusive humor combined with a formidable sense of derision characterize all his work.His pen translates his tenderly ironic vision of our failings and the failings of the world. Today, Sempé is the author of around thirty albums.In 1988, he illustrated Catherine Certitude, by Patrick Modiano.He draws regularly for "L'Express", "Télérama", "le New Yorker" and exhibits his drawings and watercolors in Munich, New York, London or Salzburg,
