Mrs Weber's Omnibus
Une BD de Simmonds, Posy chez Jonathan Cape - 2012
10/2012 (25 octobre 2012) 488 pages 9780224096836 A l'italienne 478320
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... Lire la suite