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"She's an extraordinary cartoonist. In the collected
volumes that I've got there are places where she does some
ingenious things with storytelling and characterization. The
pity of it is that the vast majority of people who like to
think of themselves as comic fans... will never do themselves
the favour of picking it up and getting a decent education
in graphic narrative." "Posy Simmonds is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of
a handful of absolutely brilliant cartoonists currently working
in the English language... Books like Very
Posy and Pick of Posy are
among the best newspaper strips ever published... Few cartoonists
have demonstrated the range that Simmonds has displayed over
the years. Jules Feiffer would be an obvious comparison, but
even Feiffer lacked the sheer density of Simmonds' most accomplished
pieces." Rosemary Elizabeth Simmonds was born in 1945 in Berkshire. She studied at the Sorbonne University, Paris before returning to England to attend the Central School of Art and Design in London where she briefly studied fine art, swapping to graphic design. In 1969, she began her first daily cartoon feature Bear in the Sun and also contributed to The Times and Cosmopolitan magazine. In 1972 she moved to The Guardian newspaper initially producing filler illustrations for a variety of articles. However, it was her weekly strip that began in 1977 about the Weber family that made her name and established her as an artist and social commentator. For 10 years readers reveled in her observations on the good-hearted, middle-class, left-wing Weber family, who came with an assortment of friends, fashions, passions and guilts. Readers saw themselves caricatured in her politically correct creations. But eventually she wanted to try something new and in 1987 she started to write and illustrate children's fiction and has produced several best-selling titles including Fred, Lulu and the Flying Babies and F-Freezing ABC. In addition, she continues to produce books for adults, including Gemma Bovery, a reworking of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and most recently Literary Life in 2003. Her work, whether for children or for adults, is notable for the discipline and fine tuning of the page design combining a razor-sharp wit with merciless social observation. She lives in London. Interviews: Resources: On-Line Comics: Reviews: |
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"A tightly wound masterpiece of the comics form, Gemma
Bovery deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest
graphic novels published to date in any language." "Masterful. Simmonds work is by far the most incisive and
ambitious of her career." "Every line of every drawing... is distinctively stamped
with Posy's personality, her unfailing sharpness of observation
and gift for the drolly eloquent detail. More remarkable still,
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