Pure Posy

by Posy Simmonds

Pure Posy

Genres: Comics, Humor

Hardcover

First published October 8, 1987

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Dave Morris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up a signed copy in the secondhand bookshop at Ickworth. I prefer Simmonds' long-form works, but even in these short pieces her writing and drawing mark her out as one of the greats of the comics medium.

[Marko8 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good one, balancing between positivity, healthy values and calling out some behaviours.

I would recommend.

[Esther · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another installment of the classic comic strip from The Guardian. My parents had all of these and I picked this up second hand recently. Amazed at how many of the strips are burnt onto my memory still. For an insight into middle class Britain in the 80s this is superb, so funny and so uncannily accurate. We all knew people like this....