Posy Simmonds
1945
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country of citizenship: United Kingdom
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Faculty of Arts of Paris, Central School of Art and Design, Queen Anne's School, University of Paris
occupation: writer, cartoonist, illustrator, children's writer, comics artist
award received: Member of the Order of the British Empire, Angoulême International Comics Festival Essentials, Prix de la critique, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Prix Grand Boum
influenced by: Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, William Hogarth
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE, FRSL (born 9 August 1945) is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she drew the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drew feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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