Posy Simmonds (The Illustrators)

The first book to cover the entire career and range of work by Posy Simmonds, one of Britain’s leading satirical cartoonists – part of the new Illustrators series. In the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Posy Simmonds has become one of Britain’s best-known satirical cartoonists. She is also a much-loved author and artist of widely translated children’s books and graphic novels. 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. This is the first book to explore Simmonds’s life and work from her early childhood to the present day. She offers insights into her creative process and provides unprecedented access to her ‘workroom’ and archives containing sketchbooks and rare or never-before-seen artworks. A portrait emerges of Posy Simmonds as a chronicler and critic of contemporary society and a storyteller in words and pictures of rare perception and humanity.