| Posy Simmonds | |
|---|---|
 Simmonds at Hatchards, London, November 2018 | |
| Born | Rosemary Elizabeth Simmonds 9 August 1945 Berkshire, England |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist Illustrator Writer |
Notable works | Gemma Bovery Tamara Drewe |
| Awards | MBE, Prix de la critique, British Comic Awards Hall of Fame (2014) |
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE, FRSL (born 9 August 1945) 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 drew the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books.[1] Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drew feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.
- ^ "Paul Gravett interviewing Posy Simmonds". 4 November 2007.