Overview
Eleanor Davis'sHow to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow, as well as her own self-publishing and web efforts. Davis achieves a rare, subtle poignancy in her narratives that are at once compelling and elusive, pregnant with mystery and a deeply satisfying emotional resonance. Happy shows the full range of Davis's graphic skills - sketchy drawing, polished pen and ink line work, and meticulously designed full color painted panels- which are always in the service of a narrative that builds to a quietly devastating climax. Named one of NPR's and Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014. Shortlist, Slate's 2014 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year 2015 Ignatz Award Winner: Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Full Product Details
Author: Eleanor Davis ,
Eleanor Davis
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Dimensions:
Width: 19.70cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 25.80cm
Weight: 0.685kg
ISBN: 9781606997406
ISBN 10: 1606997408
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 03 August 2014
Recommended Age: From 16
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
It's a stunning body of work that brings together loosely personal and wholly fictional stories about joy, anguish, fear and loneliness -- emotions all motivated by that essential quest to be the best you can be. --James Cartwright
<em>How to Be Happy</em> is an argument for empathy, but not of the call-and-response kind. The stories here know the world is often heavy and intolerable. And also worthwhile; sometimes touched by light, sometimes full of music. Empathy is knowing both sides of the world, shouldering them and carrying on, searching for the still unblemished parts of the soul. --Paul Arrand Rodgers
Davis''''s short comics have been Tumblr favorites for her artistic style mixing classic illustrative techniques with unsettling observations and sexuality. This first print collection of her stories promises no less.
Author Information
Eleanor Davis is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator. In 2009, Davis won the Eisner's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award and was named one of Print magazine's New Visual Artists. Her books include How To Be Happy (2014), Why Art? (2018), and The Hard Tomorrow (2019), which won the LA Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels and Comics. She lives in Athens, GA, with her husband, fellow cartoonist Drew Weing.
