5/18/2023 0 Comments Posy Simmonds by Paul Gravett![]() ![]() Newer trades are featured, with Simmonds well ahead of the curve with the closing strip, spotlighting the new breed of stock trader, and there are some compact observational masterpieces. Each features the person of the month along with observations regarding their lives. Simmonds adapts her approach to primarily illustrated text for a series of monthly pieces for the Spectator during 19. ![]() A financial dip affected many, and the old stiff upper lip culture was gradually being phased out. Presaging similar characters from her later Literary Life, and Tamara Drewe, the perpetually vain and grumpy Crouch was first introduced in Pure Posy and represents the evolving face of the middle classes at the time. The Weber family and their friends are largely sidelined in favour of the observations of self-proclaimed ‘literary’ author J. The essential topic, though, remains the pricking of the pretentiousness and pomposities of the chattering classes, zoning in on foibles, eccentricities and hypocrisy. The content dates from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the characters that sustained her strip through the previous decade are rarely to be seen. ![]() This is the final collection of Posy Simmonds’ Guardian newspaper strips in the format introduced in 1977, and it also incorporates material created for other publications. ![]()
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