Editing Posy Simmonds (section)

{{Short description|British cartoonist, writer and illustrator}}
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{{Infobox comics creator
| image       = Posy Simmonds 20181129.jpg
| caption     = Simmonds at [[Hatchards]], London, November 2018
| birth_name  = Rosemary Elizabeth Simmonds
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1945|08|09}}
| birth_place = [[Berkshire]], England
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| area          = [[Cartoonist]]<br />Illustrator<br />Writer
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| notable works = ''[[Gemma Bovery]]''<br />''[[Tamara Drewe]]''
| awards        = [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]], [[Prix de la critique]], [[British Comic Awards]] Hall of Fame (2014)
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'''Rosemary Elizabeth''' "'''Posy'''" '''Simmonds''' [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]] (born 9 August 1945) is a British newspaper [[cartoonist]], and writer and illustrator of both [[Children's literature|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.<ref>{{cite web|date=4 November 2007|title=Paul Gravett interviewing Posy Simmonds|url=http://www.paulgravett.com/index.php/articles/article/posy_simmonds/}}</ref> Her style gently satirises the [[Social structure of Britain#20th century|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 novel|gothic romantic novel]], to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.