Monday, October 29, 2018

A British Graphic Novel Author Wants To Create A Woman As Rotten As Scrooge

Well, as Scrooge in the majority of A Christmas Carol, anyway. Posy Simmonds, author of Gemma Bovary and Tamara Drewe, is ready to let her grump loose on the world. “I start in notebooks and was drawing a character who I thought might run an art gallery. I’ve always thought that, with rare exceptions like Mrs Danvers [from Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca], women really aren’t allowed to be total rotters.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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