St. Tropez

Jean-Jacques Sempé’s St. Tropez (1970–present, Diogenes Verlag) is a single-issue, wordless comic that captures the sun-drenched, whimsical absurdity of the French Riviera through the artist’s signature, delicate linework. Published as a standalone album, it distills Sempé’s gentle, observational humor into a series of vignettes—a quiet, charming snapshot of the era’s leisure class. While brief, the book stands as a distinct, atmospheric testament to the artist’s ability to find comedy in everyday elegance.