Voutch
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| - | '''Jean-Jacques Sempé''' (born [[August 17]], [[1932]] in [[Bordeaux]]) is a [[France|French]] [[cartoonist]]. | + | '''Voutch''', de son vrai nom Olivier Vouktchevitch, est un dessinateur d'humour français né à Courbevoie le 12 février 1958 qui a passé son enfance dans l'est de la France, à Épinal et à Saint Dié. Il se fait parfois appeler Olivier Chapougnot1. Il a trois enfants. |
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| - | Some of his cartoons are quite striking, but most are sweet and sentimental and somehow manage to be gentle even when the topic is difficult. He once drew a series called ''[[Le petit Nicolas]]'', starting it in the 1950s, but he is best known for his poster-like illustrations. | + | |
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| - | His career started in France within the context of the [[Franco-Belgian comics]] industry. His "mute" watercolors or single image sketches, where the characters speak in pictures or not at all (but somehow manage to convey a rich story) slowly gained international attention. His work has appeared as the cover of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine several times. | + | |
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"À la manière de Sempé, Voutch place souvent ses personnages dans de grands décors dont ils ne sont pas nécessairement l'élément central."--Sholem Stein |
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Voutch, de son vrai nom Olivier Vouktchevitch, est un dessinateur d'humour français né à Courbevoie le 12 février 1958 qui a passé son enfance dans l'est de la France, à Épinal et à Saint Dié. Il se fait parfois appeler Olivier Chapougnot1. Il a trois enfants.
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