Instead, the story that emerges from them forms a cryptic play on society’s expectations for happiness. Don’t be fooled by the title, though you won’t find the key to happiness in these illustrations. How to be Happy an imaginative collection of graphic literary short stories. The success of this collection suggests that short pieces are likely Davis' métier, but what's here is so accomplished that it's natural to hope for a book-length work next time out. Shortlist, Slate's 2014 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the YearĢ015 Ignatz Award Winner: Outstanding Anthology or Collection Named one of NPR's and Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014. 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. 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 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 is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. This is the first collection of literary short comics stories by an award-winning cartoonist.Įleanor Davis’s How to be Happy is the artist’s first collection of graphic/literary short stories.
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