![]() ![]() ![]() A portrait emerges of Posy Simmonds as a chronicler and critic of contemporary British society and a storyteller in words and pictures of rare perception and humanity. In a series of interviews with Paul Gravett she offered insights into her creative process and provided unprecedented access to her ‘workroom’ and archives containing sketchbooks and rare or never-before-seen artworks. Posy Simmonds Author Paul Gravett Format Hardcover Language English Topic Individual Artists / Monographs, Graphic Arts / Illustration Publication Year 2019 Genre Design, Art Number of Pages 112 Pages Dimensions Item Length 9.9in Item Height 0.5in Item Width 7.7in Item Weight 18. This is the first book to explore Simmonds’s life and work from her early childhood to the present day. Her extraordinary precision of drawing, her powers of observation and her sharp but well-tempered wit have made her one of Britain’s most sophisticated innovators, renowned especially for expanding the scope and subtlety of comics. Simmonds once described her job on a census form as ‘a visual engineer’. These include Fred, animated in 1996 into the Oscar-nominated short film Famous Fred, and Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, both adapted into films, increasing her international fame. Illustrator Posy Simmonds is known for her extraordinarily precise drawings, keen powers of observation, and sharp but well-tempered wit, all of which have. She is also as a much-loved author and artist of widely translated children’s books and graphic novels. ![]() ![]() In the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Posy Simmonds has become one of Britain’s best-known satirical cartoonists. ![]()
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