Posy Simmonds

Posy Simmonds
Simmonds at Hatchards, London, November 2018
Born	Rosemary Elizabeth Simmonds (1945-08-09) 9 August 1945 (age 78) 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.