Mixed Messages
Book Details
Author(s)Jean-Jacques Sempé
PublisherPhaidon Press
ISBN / ASIN0714845434
ISBN-139780714845432
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank1,024,379
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
In his most recent collection of cartoons, Sempe turns his attention to the trappings of modern life, from mobile phones to designer water. He also takes a fresh look at some of his favourite topics and archetypes, such as struggling artists, aloof psychiatrists and unhappy couples. Whether he's poking fun at the urbane patrons of fashionable restaurants or the inhabitants of sleepy hamlets, Sempe treats all his subjects with equal amounts of insight and affection. These inimitable drawings and watercolours, accompanied by perfectly judged deadpan captions, are fresh, engaging and funny, and will appeal to cartoon connoisseurs and Francophiles as well as the general public .

