Eleanor Davis

Eleanor McCutcheon Davis (born January 16, 1983) is an American cartoonist and illustrator.

Eleanor Davis was raised in Tucson, Arizona^[1] by comic-enthusiast parents who exposed her to stories like Little Lulu, Krazy Kat, Little Nemo, and the Kinder Kids. She attended Kino School, an alternative K-12 school in Tucson. In high school, she began drawing seriously and self-published her own comic. She studied sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia.^[2]

Davis has self-published many comics, including The Beast Mother.^[3]

Davis's work has also been included in five issues of Fantagraphics' anthology MOME as well as Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics in 2008.^[4]

Her easy-reader book, Stinky, was published in 2008 by Françoise Mouly's Toon Books and won an ALA Geisel Honor Award, a Booklist's Notable Children's Books Award, and the Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year in 2009 as well as the Association for Library Service to Children's Graphic Novels Reading List award in 2014.^[5]The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook, published by Bloomsbury Children's in 2009, was a collaborative book created with husband Drew Weing, who inked Davis' illustrations. In 2009, she won the Eisner's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award and was named one of Print magazine's New Visual Artists.^[6] In 2013, her short story In Our Eden received a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators.^[7]

En agosto de 2014, Fantagraphics publicó la primera colección de historias de Davis, How to Be Happy . Slate describió la colección: «una mezcla de acuarelas geométricas y evocadoras y dibujos fluidos a pluma y tinta, How to Be Happy cuenta historias de personas tristes, solitarias, fuertes y seguras de sí mismas, todas tratando de encontrar un poco de felicidad en la vida». ^{[ 8 ]} Tras su publicación, el crítico de cómics Richard Bruton describió a Davis como «sin duda, un joven creador importante». ^{[ 9 ]}

Su novela gráfica de 2017, You & a Bike & a Road , publicada por Koyama Press , ganó el premio Ignatz a la mejor antología o colección. ^{[ 10 ]}

En marzo de 2018, Fantagraphics publicó Why Art?, una novela gráfica en la que Davis examina el concepto de arte. ^{[ 11 ]} Su novela gráfica más reciente, The Hard Tomorrow , publicada por Drawn and Quarterly, se lanzó en octubre de 2019. ^{[ 12 ]}

Davis ha impartido clases de verano sobre narración de cómics en la Universidad de Georgia . ^{[ 13 ] [ 14 ]}

Davis vive y trabaja en Athens, Georgia , con su esposo y también dibujante Drew Weing. ^{[ 15 ]}

• Apestoso . Toon Books. (2008) ISBN 0979923840
• La Alianza Secreta de la Ciencia y el Ladrón Imitador. (2009) Bloomsbury. ISBN 1599903962.
• Cómo ser feliz. Fantagraphics. (2014) ISBN 1606997408.
• Tú, una bicicleta y una carretera. Koyama Press. (2017) ISBN 9781927668405.
• ¿Por qué el arte? Fantagraphics. (2018) ISBN 9781683960829.
• El duro mañana . Drawn and Quarterly. (2019) ISBN 978-1770463738.

• Sitio web oficial
• Eleanor Davis en la Biblioteca del Congreso , con 8 registros del catálogo de la biblioteca.
• "Charla sobre cómics con Tim: Eleanor Davis sobre cómo ser feliz" (30 de junio de 2014) por Tim O'Shea, Comic Book Resources (CBR.org, archivado el 5 de septiembre de 2015)