Through her continuing career of over fifty years, Posy Simmonds has innovated in many forms of British cartooning. In her large weekly strips from 1977 for The Guardian newspaper’s Women’s Page, she at last gives voices in British comics to real women, their lives, struggles and inequalities. ‘Fred’, her first of several children’s books to use the comics medium, she daringly deals with death through the passing of a family moggie, who at night, unknown to them, was a feline Elvis Presley. For her three graphic novels - ‘Gemma Bovery’, ’Tamara Drewe’ and ‘Cassandra Darke’ - she invents her own revolutionary blend of comics, illustration and text to update and transform literary classics. Posy shares her experiences, processes and latest projects in conversation with her biographer, Paul Gravett.

Posy Simmonds