书名：Posy Simmonds (The Illustrators) / 波西·西蒙兹（插画家系列）
作者：Paul Gravett
出版社：Thames & Hudson，2019年
装帧：精装，112页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 24.5*18.7 cm
ISBN：978-0-5002-2213-9

简介

在五十多年的职业生涯中，波西·西蒙兹已成为英国最著名的讽刺漫画家之一，同时也是一位备受喜爱的童书和图像小说作家与艺术家。她的作品包括《弗雷德》（Fred，1996年被改编为奥斯卡提名动画短片《著名的弗雷德》），以及《杰玛·博维里》（Gemma Bovery）和《塔玛拉·德鲁》（Tamara Drewe）——这两部作品均被改编为电影，为她赢得了国际声誉。

西蒙兹曾在人口普查表格上将自己的职业描述为“视觉工程师”。她非凡的绘画精确度、敏锐的观察力以及犀利而温和的机智，使她成为英国最精妙的创新者之一，尤其以扩展漫画的广度与深度而著称。

本书是第一部全面探讨西蒙兹从童年至今生活与创作的著作。在作者保罗·格拉维特的一系列采访中，西蒙兹深入分享了自己的创作过程，并前所未有地开放了她的“工作室”和档案，其中包含速写本以及罕见或从未公开的艺术作品。本书展现的波西·西蒙兹形象，是一位当代英国社会的编年史家和评论家，也是一位拥有非凡洞察力与人性的图文叙事者。

In the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Posy Simmonds has become one of Britain's best-known satirical cartoonists. She is also a much-loved author and artist of widely translated children's books and graphic novels. These include Fred, animated in 1996 into the Oscar-nominated short film Famous Fred, and Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, both adapted into films, increasing her international fame. Simmonds once described her job on a census form as 'a visual engineer'. Her extraordinary precision of drawing, her powers of observation and her sharp but well-tempered wit have made her one of Britain's most sophisticated innovators, renowned especially for expanding the scope and subtlety of comics. This is the first book to explore Simmonds's life and work from her early childhood to the present day. In a series of interviews with Paul Gravett she offered insights into her creative process and provided unprecedented access to her 'workroom' and archives containing sketchbooks and rare or never-before-seen artworks. A portrait emerges of Posy Simmonds as a chronicler and critic of contemporary British society and a storyteller in words and pictures of rare perception and humanity.