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Alongside his press cartoons, Sempé is the author of a multitude of albums, most of them published by Denoël.
A hard worker, attentive to the smallest detail, Sempé pays particular attention to the details of his decorations, to rhythms and proportions.
His humor is full of sensitivity and poetry. Sempé is a mischievous humanist who casts a gaze imbued with a gentle universal philosophy on human beings.
His watercolors soon blur the outlines with Indian ink and reinforce this unspeakable modesty, this sharp tenderness for all these failings that he denounces with finesse and always with the right distance.