“I had a go at all sorts of things before taking up drawing, but none of my jobs lasted very long. On looking back on his chequered work history, in a 2001 Guardian interview, Sempé said: He managed to get some early sketches published in the Sud Ouest newspaper under a pseudonym (‘DRO’) before becoming confident enough to sign his published drawings with his own name for the first time in the Apedition. The boy of 12 that had started by drawing Mickey Mouse and humorous doodles while listening to the radio had become a young man that couldn’t stop sketching. At 17 he lied about his age and joined the French army in 1950 for a simple reason: “That was the only place that would give me a job and a bed”, he said in a 2006 New York Times interview.ĭespite making it into the army, he was often reprimanded for drawing while on duty. Easily distracted and undisciplined, at 14 he was expelled from school and struggled to secure continuous employment – taking on various small jobs.
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