Without having ever attended an art school, Jean-Jacques Sempé has become one of the most famous cartoonists worldwide. He started making humorous drawings at age nineteen. From then on, he worked as an illustrator for various periodicals, like Paris Match, Punch and L'Express. In the 1950s, Sempé often used a character named Nicolas in his cartoons for Le Moustique. René Goscinny suggested that Sempé should start a comic with this character. 'Le Petit Nicolas' appeared from 1954 in Le Moustique and contained several of Sempé's childhood memories. The scenarios of the series were by a Agostini, who was, in fact, no one else than René Goscinny. Starting in 1960, 'Le Petit Nicolas' was published in Pilote, as novels by Goscinny, illustrated by Sempé.
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