Cassandra Darke is 71 years old, which is an immediate change and relief from the protagonists of Posy Simmonds’s two previous graphic novels, Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, who were both nubile, lithe, sexy, twenty-something, young women whose lives revolved around a series of romantic ‘liaisons’. By complete contrast, right from the start of this book we […]
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Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds (2018)
Posted by Simon on June 20, 2019
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Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds (2005)
Tamara Drewe was a weekly comic strip serial by Posy Simmonds, which ran for 13 months in The Guardian newspaper from 24 September 2005. At the end of the run it was published as a stand-alone graphic novel in November 2007. The strip is based on a modern reworking of Thomas Hardy’s nineteenth century novel Far from […]
Posted by Simon on June 19, 2019
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Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds (1999)
‘Affairs are absolutely OK as long as you don’t get involved and you’re really discreet.’ Gemma Bovery’s diary (p.63) Gemma Bovery True Love which Posy Simmonds published in 1981 was, apparently, the first graphic novel in English, although it is more like a set of loosely connected sketches (see my review). Eighteen years later Simmonds […]
Posted by Simon on June 18, 2019
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Literary Life by Posy Simmonds (2003)
I’ve noticed that many of Simmonds’s books are not numbered. This slender hardback contains sixty-four pages of cartoons satirising all aspects of the literary life, from the panic of sitting in an empty room staring at a computer with writer’s block, to the backstabbing and paranoia of literary parties, to the loneliness of book signings, […]
Posted by Simon on June 17, 2019
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Pure Posy by Posy Simmonds (1987)
From 1977 to 1987 Posy Simmonds drew a regular cartoon strip in the Guardian newspaper gently mocking the middle-class lifestyles and liberal concerns of a regular cast of a dozen or so fictional characters, centred on: Wendy Weber, a former nurse, married to verbose polytechnic sociology lecturer George Weber, trying to attend night school while being mother […]
Posted by Simon on June 15, 2019
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Very Posy by Posy Simmonds (1985)
From 1977 to 1987 Posy Simmonds drew a regular cartoon strip in the Guardian gently mocking the middle-class lifestyles and liberal concerns of a regular cast of a dozen or so fictional characters, centred on: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to verbose polytechnic sociology lecturer George Weber, and mother of a brood of six children, […]
Posted by Simon on June 14, 2019
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Pick of Posy by Posy Simmonds (1982)
From 1977 to 1987 Posy Simmonds drew a regular cartoon strip in the Guardian newspaper gently mocking the middle-class lifestyles and liberal concerns of a regular cast of a dozen or so fictional characters, centred on: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to verbose polytechnic sociology lecturer George Weber, and mother of a brood of six children, […]
Posted by Simon on June 13, 2019
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True Love by Posy Simmonds (1981)
Guardian cartoonist Posy Simmonds published True Love in 1981. It used characters from her established weekly strip cartoon in the Guardian to create an extended meditation on the nature of love, sex, marriage and adultery in a world saturated by media clichés and, in particular, through the prism of the women’s romance comics read by the book’s […]
Posted by Simon on June 12, 2019
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Mrs Weber’s Diary by Posy Simmonds (1979)
In May 1977 young Rosemary Elizabeth ‘Posy’ Simmonds (born 9 August 1945 and so aged 32 at the time) started to draw a weekly comic strip for the Guardian newspaper. It was initially titled ‘The Silent Three of St Botolph’s’ in a jokey reference to the 1950s comic strip ‘The Silent Three’ by Evelyn Flinders, […]
Posted by Simon on June 11, 2019
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