Mrs Weber's Omnibus

Mrs Weber's Omnibus

Author: Posy Simmonds

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2020-05-21

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1448129419

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In May 1977 Posy Simmonds, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the Guardian. It began as a silly parody of girls' adventure stories, making satirical comments about contemporary life. The strip soon focused on three 1950s school friends in their later middle-class and nearly middle-aged lives: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology lecturer George with a large brood of children; Jo Heep, married to whisky salesman Edmund with two rebellious teenagers; and Trish Wright, married to philandering advertising executive Stanhope and with a young baby. The strip, which was latterly untitled and usually known just as 'Posy', ran until the late 1980s. Collected here for the first time are the complete strips. Although celebrated for pinpointing the concerns of Guardian readers in the 1980s and their constant struggle to remain true to the ideals of the 1960s, they are in fact remarkably undated. They show one of Britain's favourite cartoonists, celebrated for Literary Life and Tamara Drewe, maturing into genius.


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Download or read book Mrs Weber's Omnibus written by Posy Simmonds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1977 Posy Simmonds, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the Guardian. It began as a silly parody of girls' adventure stories, making satirical comments about contemporary life. The strip soon focused on three 1950s school friends in their later middle-class and nearly middle-aged lives: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology lecturer George with a large brood of children; Jo Heep, married to whisky salesman Edmund with two rebellious teenagers; and Trish Wright, married to philandering advertising executive Stanhope and with a young baby. The strip, which was latterly untitled and usually known just as 'Posy', ran until the late 1980s. Collected here for the first time are the complete strips. Although celebrated for pinpointing the concerns of Guardian readers in the 1980s and their constant struggle to remain true to the ideals of the 1960s, they are in fact remarkably undated. They show one of Britain's favourite cartoonists, celebrated for Literary Life and Tamara Drewe, maturing into genius.

Mrs Weber's Diary

Mrs Weber's Diary

Author: Posy Simmonds

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Mrs Weber's Diary written by Posy Simmonds and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Peanuts Vol. 15

The Complete Peanuts Vol. 15

Author: Charles Schulz

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2011-04-13

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1606994387

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The Complete Peanuts 1979-1980 includes a number of classic storylines, including the month-long sequence in which an ill Charlie Brown is hospitalized (including a particularly spooky moment when he wonders if he's died and nobody's told him yet), and an especially eventful trek with Snoopy, Woodstock, and the scout troop (now including a little girl bird, Harriet). And Snoopy is still trying on identities left and right, including the "world-famous surveyor," the "world-famous census taker," and Blackjack Snoopy, the riverboat gambler.


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Download or read book The Complete Peanuts Vol. 15 written by Charles Schulz and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Peanuts 1979-1980 includes a number of classic storylines, including the month-long sequence in which an ill Charlie Brown is hospitalized (including a particularly spooky moment when he wonders if he's died and nobody's told him yet), and an especially eventful trek with Snoopy, Woodstock, and the scout troop (now including a little girl bird, Harriet). And Snoopy is still trying on identities left and right, including the "world-famous surveyor," the "world-famous census taker," and Blackjack Snoopy, the riverboat gambler.

Mustn't Grumble

Mustn't Grumble

Author: Posy Simmonds

Publisher: Random House (UK)

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780224038447

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Download or read book Mustn't Grumble written by Posy Simmonds and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gemma Bovery

Gemma Bovery

Author: Posy Simmonds

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0224061143

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Posy Simmonds' extraordinary reworking of Madame Bovary as a graphic novel Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed? These questions consume Gemma's neighbor, the intellectual baker, Joubert. Denying voyeurism, but nevertheless noting every change in the fit of her jeans, every addition to Gemma's wardrobe, her love-bites and lovers, Joubert, with the help of the heroine's diaries, follows her path towards ruin. Adultery and its consequences. Disappointment and deception. The English in France. Fat and slim. Then and now. Many familiar ingredients of the novel are given new life in Gemma Bovery's unique graphic form. Like Posy Simmond's legendary cartoon strips featuring the Weber family, Gemma Bovery was published in weekly parts in the Guardian.


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Download or read book Gemma Bovery written by Posy Simmonds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posy Simmonds' extraordinary reworking of Madame Bovary as a graphic novel Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed? These questions consume Gemma's neighbor, the intellectual baker, Joubert. Denying voyeurism, but nevertheless noting every change in the fit of her jeans, every addition to Gemma's wardrobe, her love-bites and lovers, Joubert, with the help of the heroine's diaries, follows her path towards ruin. Adultery and its consequences. Disappointment and deception. The English in France. Fat and slim. Then and now. Many familiar ingredients of the novel are given new life in Gemma Bovery's unique graphic form. Like Posy Simmond's legendary cartoon strips featuring the Weber family, Gemma Bovery was published in weekly parts in the Guardian.

Pick of Posy

Pick of Posy

Author: Posy Simmonds

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The Complete Peanuts

The Complete Peanuts

Author: Charles Monroe Schulz

Publisher: Canongate Press Limited

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847670311

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Collects all the "Peanuts" comic strips as originally published in newspapers, including both daily and Sunday strips.


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Download or read book The Complete Peanuts written by Charles Monroe Schulz and published by Canongate Press Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects all the "Peanuts" comic strips as originally published in newspapers, including both daily and Sunday strips.

Cassandra Darke

Cassandra Darke

Author: Posy Simmonds

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1409029050

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***WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020*** 'Simmonds is a copper-bottomed genius... she is as brilliant a writer as Britain has' Jenny Colgan, Mail Online Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million. She has become a social pariah, but doesn't much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied the reputation of a West End gallery and has acquired a conviction for fraud, a suspended sentence and a bank balance drained by lawsuits. On the scale of villainy, fraud seems to Cassandra a rather paltry offence - her own crime involving 'no violence, no weapon, no dead body'. But in Cassandra's basement, her young ex-lodger, Nicki, has left a surprise, something which implies at least violence and probably a body . . . Something which forces Cassandra out of her rich enclave and onto the streets. Not those local streets paved with gold and lit with festive glitter, but grimmer, darker places, where she must make the choice between self-sacrifice and running for her life.


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Download or read book Cassandra Darke written by Posy Simmonds and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020*** 'Simmonds is a copper-bottomed genius... she is as brilliant a writer as Britain has' Jenny Colgan, Mail Online Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million. She has become a social pariah, but doesn't much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied the reputation of a West End gallery and has acquired a conviction for fraud, a suspended sentence and a bank balance drained by lawsuits. On the scale of villainy, fraud seems to Cassandra a rather paltry offence - her own crime involving 'no violence, no weapon, no dead body'. But in Cassandra's basement, her young ex-lodger, Nicki, has left a surprise, something which implies at least violence and probably a body . . . Something which forces Cassandra out of her rich enclave and onto the streets. Not those local streets paved with gold and lit with festive glitter, but grimmer, darker places, where she must make the choice between self-sacrifice and running for her life.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 1084

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Risqué Business (Mills & Boon Blaze) (Blush, Book 2)

Risqué Business (Mills & Boon Blaze) (Blush, Book 2)

Author: Tawny Weber

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1408949571

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When professor/literary reviewer Delaney Conner wins a makeover, she's suddenly getting lots of attention!


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Download or read book Risqué Business (Mills & Boon Blaze) (Blush, Book 2) written by Tawny Weber and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When professor/literary reviewer Delaney Conner wins a makeover, she's suddenly getting lots of attention!