How To Be Happy

Eleanor Davis€s How to be Happy is the artist€s first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. 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 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 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.