VERY POSY

by Posy Simmonds

Very Posy

Genres: Graphic Novels Comics, Humor, Comics

Paperback

First published October 24, 1985

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

[Phil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Posy Simmonds’s cartoon strips anatomising and satirising the London liberal middle-classes constitute a small masterpiece in the graphic literature genre, the more so for daring to challenge the pretensions and hypocrisies of the readership of that reliably degree-level self-righteous newspaper “The Guardian”, in which they were originally published. In other words, they take the piss most eloquently out of pretentious leftist academics and their sense of superiority and entitlement. But gently. And none the less powerfully for that.

[Elizabeth]

ah, what can I say. I'm a sucker for Posy Simmonds--comfort reading. I'll read this again.

Sara likes her too!

[Marko8 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very posy indeed. It is official and I have no issue sharing. I love Posy Simmonds' graphic novels.

I find them so smart, I absolutely love the art style and I think this is a very positive collection of hers. It feels quite fascinating to me as I feel that I can tell what moods Posy was in according to how positive the pages are.

Thanks for creating Posy, very Posy.

[Godka · Rating 5 out of 5]

Posy's art is simply stunning; and her sense of humour and ability to critique on various topics in a witty way are both top notch.

[scarlettraces · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love her trenchant feminism - this one is vintage 80s.

[Esparkinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love George and Wendy!

[Alison Simpson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read/look at it over and over again - Curiously current, considering it was drawn in the early 1980's.