Posy Simmonds, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Posy Simmonds

British cartoonist and writer

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1945

Place of Birth: Cookham, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, illustrator, comics artist, cartoonist, children's writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE (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 has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books.
Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent.
Both of the published books 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.