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How To Be Happy

$24.99

by Eleanor Davis

Eleanor Davis’s How To Be Happy is the artist’s first collection of graphic/literary short stories, and it’s about time. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. How To Be Happy represents the best stories she’s drawn for such venues as Mome, Nobrow, and Lucky Peach, as well as her own self-publishing and web efforts.

Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 9781606997406

Description

Eleanor Davis’s How To Be Happy is the artist’s first collection of graphic/literary short stories, and it’s about time. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. How To Be Happy represents the best stories she’s drawn for such venues as Mome, Nobrow, and Lucky Peach, 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. How To Be Happy shows the full range of Davis’s graphic skills, 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.

“Nita Goes Home” (originally published in Mome) selected for The Best American Comics 2013

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.- Publishers Weekly

Imaginative and funny and fanciful, but it’s also very thoroughly worked out. She’s not afraid to be clear.- Françoise Mouly

Eleanor Davis’s comic has a visual narrative that’s as smooth as butter…- Kirkus Reviews

152 page black and white with color hardcover
Fantagraphics, 2014

 

Additional information

Weight 21 oz
Dimensions 10 × 7 × 1 in
ISBN

978-1606997406