Panic Stations
A collection of illustrations by world-renowned cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé.
Jean-Jacques Sempé
The fifth anthology of witty and enchanting sketches and cartoons by one of the world’s best-loved illustrators
In this collection Sempé returns to some of his favourite themes – unspoken truths, failed communications and hidden talents – as well as exploring a batch of new subjects: familiar characters such as artists, psychoanalysts and married couples appear alongside unpredictable children, tyrannical computers and surprisingly friendly aliens
Originally published in France in 1966, and now available to a worldwide English-speaking audience for the first time, Sempé’s witty drawings will delight cartoon connoisseurs and Francophiles as well as the general public
Translated by Anthea Bell, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and
the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize
Hardback
220 x 270 mm, 8 5/8 x 10 5/8 in
112 pp
190 black and white illustrations
ISBN 9780714846743
0714846740
In this collection of illustrations and cartoons, Sempé explores some of his favourite themes, such as unspoken truths, failed communications and hidden talents. There are men talk who to their cars, while others hope to communicate with creatures from distant planets, as well as women yearning for long-vanished civilisations, girls dreaming of pop stardom and children getting up to no good, as usual.
Most famous in the English-speaking world for his instantly recognizable
New Yorker covers, Jean-Jacques Sempé has delighted readers in France and beyond with his witty drawings and keen eye for the finer points of the human condition for over 40 years. Now, his sharply observed and beautifully drawn cartoons are available in English for the first time. The pithy captions were translated from the original French by Anthea Bell, who also translated the
Asterix comics into English.
Jean-Jacques Sempé (b.1932) is one of the world's most successful illustrators and cartoonists. He is the illustrator of the classic children's-book character, Nicholas, and author of a collection of some thirty albums of his cartoons and graphic novels, all published or to be published by Phaidon. His world-renowned illustrations and cartoons are featured on the cover of the New Yorker and in Paris Match.