1. Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE, FRSL was born on 9 August 1945 and is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels.
10 Facts About Posy Simmonds
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Posy Simmonds is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she drew the series Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, both later published as books.
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Posy Simmonds contributed humorous illustrations to The Times from 1968 to 1970.
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Posy Simmonds contributed to Cosmopolitan, and a satirical cartoon to Tariq Ali's Black Dwarf magazine.
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Posy Simmonds moved to The Guardian as an illustrator in 1972.
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The strip, which was latterly untitled and usually known just as "Posy Simmonds", ran until the late 1980s.
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In 1981, Posy Simmonds was named Cartoonist of the Year in the British Press Awards.
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In 1987 Posy Simmonds turned her hand to writing, as well as illustrating, children's books.
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Posy Simmonds drew the illustrations for the opening titles of the BBC's 2007 production of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, and for Midsummer Nights, a volume of opera-related short stories by prominent writers published in 2009 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival.
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Posy Simmonds was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2002 for services to the newspaper industry.