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Posy Simmonds


Born
in Cookham Dene, Berkshire, The United Kingdom
August 09, 1945

Genre
Comics & Graphic Novels


Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE 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 has drawn 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 of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th- and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant. ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 8,169 ratings · 963 reviews · 72 distinct works • Similar authors
Tamara Drewe
3.75 avg rating — 2,908 ratings — published 2007 — 18 editions
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Cassandra Darke
3.88 avg rating — 1,823 ratings — published 2018 — 15 editions
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Gemma Bovery
3.86 avg rating — 1,774 ratings — published 1999 — 31 editions
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Literary Life
3.66 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions
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Fred
4.18 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1987 — 15 editions
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Mrs Weber's Omnibus
4.25 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Lulu and the Flying Babies
4.12 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions
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Baker Cat
3.92 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions
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Mrs Weber's Diary
4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1979 — 5 editions
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Literary Life Revisited
3.95 avg rating — 57 ratings — 3 editions
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