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Includes the name: Eleanor Davis

Image credit: Illustrator Eleanor Davis at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84467539

Works by Eleanor Davis

Stinky (2008) 247 copies
How To Be Happy (2014) 233 copies
Why Art? (2018) 138 copies
You & a Bike & a Road (2017) 134 copies
The Hard Tomorrow (2019) 111 copies
Flop to the Top! (2015) 67 copies
Now 1: The New Comics Anthology (2017) — Contributor — 24 copies
Libby's Dad (2016) 23 copies
Frontier 11 (1915) 7 copies
Mattie and Dodi 3 copies
Fuckwizards 1 copy

Associated Works

The Best American Comics 2008 (2008) — Contributor — 296 copies
The Best American Comics 2013 (2013) — Contributor — 105 copies
The Best American Comics 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 93 copies
True Porn Volume 2 (True Porn) (2005) — Contributor — 64 copies
The Best American Comics 2019 (2019) — Contributor — 42 copies
Lucky Peach : Issue 5 : Chinatown (2012) — Contributor — 34 copies
Thought Bubble Anthology Collection: 10 Years of Comics (2016) — Cover artist — 15 copies
Adventure Time #5 (2012) — Cover artist, some editions — 8 copies
Great Fairytales: Part 7 - Beastly Tales (2009) — Illustrator — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate
1983
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Places of residence
Athens, Georgia, USA
Occupations
cartoonist
illustrator
Relationships
Weing, Drew (husband)
Awards and honors
Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award (2009)
Short biography
Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Athens, Georgia. Her work has appeared in Fantagraphics's MOME and The Best American Comics 2008. She is currently working on a historical murder mystery graphic novel with history teacher Ann Davis, who is also Eleanor's mother. [from Fairy Tale Comics (First Second, 2013)]

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I feel slightly confused and partially awestruck and a little bit existential after finishing this.
Beautiful little illustrations and strange short stories that are very odd and sometimes satirical. It's honestly a little choppy, and weird, but- it worked. I would read more by Davis.
 
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deborahee | 9 other reviews | Feb 23, 2024 |
A monster learns to control his anger and be friendly, and a boy learns to be industrious and set aside his fear. Another hit with our preschooler.
 
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vverse23 | 22 other reviews | Jan 9, 2024 |
This was quirky and good. Still, on the whole I prefer my meditations on art to be a little more multivalenced. Despite her surrealism, Davis seems to think "Why art?" is a question with an answer. Idk, maybe there's more nuance to this little book than I picked up on. Despite my reservations I still enjoyed its sketchy, assured creativity.
 
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raschneid | 7 other reviews | Dec 19, 2023 |
Wonderful, evocative, beautiful work. I'm almost taking this quality for granted with her now, especially at this short comic length. It's less a story, more of a vignette of those revelatory moments one has in adolescence. Bittersweet, with a caustic undertone. The art is so fully in service to the story, it elevates the work by magnitudes.
 
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thisisstephenbetts | 1 other review | Nov 25, 2023 |

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Works
14
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Members
1,285
Popularity
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Rating
½ 3.7
Reviews
77
ISBNs
37
Languages
2
Favorited
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