Mustn't Grumble

by Posy Simmonds

Genres: Graphic Novels Comics

96 pages, Hardcover

First published November 18, 1993

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

[Marko8 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite funny and I love the art style. After now having read four graphic novels by Posy Simmonds I have to say that they are good fun but I find her oldest material, even though a fair commentary of the times, quite negative. Thus, extending the sentiment of the people she illustrates in her books.
I can't say I loved this one. I prefer Cassandra Darke or Litterary Life.

[Elizabeth]

I sympathize so deeply with her unsympathetic and crabby author, JD Crouch. It is a bit weird seeing George and Wendy Weber hovering in the background with their hair gone white, toting grandchildren on their hips. (Makes me feel quite old, too.)

I am a huge fan of Posy Simmonds and although this isn't my favorite collection, or her most striking work, I am sad that it's the only one I hadn't read because now I'll have to wait for her to produce something new!

[scarlettraces · Rating 5 out of 5]

there can never be too much Posy.