Posy Simmonds

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As in Thee all-too-occasional "Guardian" cartoonist. I think she is one of the UKs best ever cartoonists - that deceptively simple looking art I think is actually much better & more satisfying to look at than that of a whole lot of on-the-surface-of-it-more-impressive cartoonists, plus the really cranky & eccentric lettering, the hard-assedness that lies beneath the sweet & ever so twee surface, the whole world around George & Wendy Weber, surely one ov thee most, uh, complete comix worlds, well that all pleases me mightily. Her high points? The one where Goerge Weber and his american friend are trying to do a po-mo deconstruction of top shelf magazines, that take on "Cinderella" at the old folks home she did last year, The webers daughter wanting a prinzezz D!-style wedding to her parents horror & shame, the one where the div0rced couple are imagining how their exes are living, contrasted with how they are l\/ing. Wendy Weber watching the daytime American soaps etc etc etc. I alzo suspect that in her under-the-radar, who has ever heard of her way, she is one of the most copied cartoonists around, I certainly recall seeing lotsa work that was cut whole from her style anyway. Phire /-\\/\//-\'/!!

― Norman Phay, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To me, Posy Simmonds is inextricably bound up with being middle class in the 80s and given that, I don't know how universal her appeal is, but it's certainly true about the complete worlds thing. Her characterisation is fantastic.

― Archel, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As gentle satires on middle class liberals in our broadsheet newspapers go, she is one of the very best.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked Gemma Bovary.

― rosemary, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Silent Three - Twenty Years Later" was awesome.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Gemma Bovary is pretty good.

― D., Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FAMOUS FRED! I respect her stuff, but it rarely interested me (except Famous Fred). She was sort of chief of the wimmin's comix cabal that used to go to all the small-press stuff. I think I saw her with Lianne Franson and jeremy Dennis and a couple of others at Caption. The Sleaze Castle guys were quite friendly with her too I think, or I might have just got the wrong impression.

― Alan T, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Posy Simmonds = salad in a wooden bowl.

I need to rush out and pick up the new 'Bivouac' catalogue.

― misterjones, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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