An animated film, Le Petit Nicolas – Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux (Little Nicholas – Happy As Can Be), won the Cristal for a feature film award at the Annecy animated film festival in June and will be released in French cinemas in October. The adventures of Le Petit Nicolas, the boy Sempé created with René Goscinny, who wrote the Astérix series, have appeared in more than 30 languages, and were adapted for a full-length feature film starring Valérie Lemercier in 2009 (released in the UK in 2012) with a sequel in 2014. He would subsequently produce 106 of the magazine’s covers, a figure unrivalled by any other artist.
Far from dwelling on that misery, Sempé, as he signed his work and was widely known, was a man who, as Le Monde said, “could make the world giggle”.Ĭelebrated in France as one of the country’s finest cartoonists, Sempé featured in many national publications but was largely unknown to the English-speaking world until the New Yorker commissioned him to produce a cartoon for its cover in the late 1970s.
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