Eleanor Davis

A collection of literary comics exploring joy, anguish, fear, and loneliness.

How to Be Happy

In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis’ comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transportation. Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist and illustrator. She lives in Athens, GA and was born in Tucson, Arizona. In 2009, Davis won the Eisner's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award and was named one of Print magazine's New Visual Artists. In 2015, her book How To Be Happy won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection.

You and a Bike and a Road

The gorgeous and empathetic story of one couple’s search for hope and a peaceful future Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working—or "working"—on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants—kale, tomatoes—to ensure they have sufficient sustenance should the end times come, which, given their fragile democracy strained under the weight of a carceral state and the risk of horrible war, doesn’t seem so far off. Helping Hannah in her fight for the future is her best friend Gabby, a queer naturalist she idolizes and who adores her. Helping Johnny build the house is Tyler, an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist driven sick by his own cloudy notions of reality. Told with tenderness and care in an undefined near future, Eleanor Davis's The Hard Tomorrow blazes unrestrained, as moments of human connection are doused in fear and threats. Her astute projections probe at current anxieties in a cautionary tale that begs the question: What will happen after tomorrow?

The Hard Tomorrow

This is a treatise on what makes art art, told in graphic novel form. What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things. But how can it truly make lasting, positive change? In Why Art?, acclaimed graphic novelist Eleanor Davis (How To Be Happy) unpacks some of these concepts in ways both critical and positive, in an attempt to illuminate the highest possible potential an artwork might hope to achieve. A work of art unto itself, Davis leavens her exploration with a sense of humor and a thirst for challenging preconceptions of art worth of Magritte, instantly drawing the reader in as a willing accomplice in her quest.

Why Art?

Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.

The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook

Wanda's a star! Or at least she thinks she is...

Toon Level 3

Flop to the Top!

"Libby's mom told everyone that Libby's dad said he was gonna shoot her." "With his gun." A lushly colored story of youth and rumor, by New York Times bestselling creator Eleanor Davis.

Libby's Dad

Noah Van Sciver

Dash Shaw

Eric Reynolds

Now 1

And the Copycat Crook

The Secret Science Alliance

Stinky, a monster who lives in a swamp, gets upset when a boy named Nick starts hanging around his swamp, and so he tries to scare Nick away.

A Toon Book

Stinky

¿Arte? ¿Por qué?

A two-wheeled journey across the landscape of America, and through the heart and mind of an artist.

You & a Bike & a Road

Princeton University. Industrial Relations Section

Company Plans for Employee Savings and Investment, Prepared by Eleanor Davis. Preliminary Draft

USA, 2022: le auto vanno ancora a benzina, gli schermi degli smartphone si scheggiano come sempre e non ci sono alieni in vista. Tutto è identico al nostro presente, ma la storia ci insegna che sono sufficienti dei piccoli cambiamenti per innescare spaventose reazioni a catena. Infatti, Zuckerberg ha preso il posto di Trump e i droni di Facebook ci scrutano dal cielo. Più che uno scenario di fantascienza, questo è un distillato di timori fondati. Del resto, come ricorda Virginia W. Ricci nella sua prefazione, «Davis ha iniziato a scrivere questa storia poco dopo l'elezione dell'attuale presidente degli Stati Uniti, in un momento in cui stava perdendo un parente anziano e, contemporaneamente, cercava di concepire un bambino», tutte esperienze che convergono nelle vicende della protagonista Hannah, una badante trentenne, molto attiva politicamente. Visto che la sua vita privata non è un granché, Hannah fa il possibile per migliorare quella di chi la circonda. Il suo compagno Johnny ha promesso che costruirà una casa per loro due e il figlio che vorrebbero tanto. La casa e il figlio, però, restano fantasie e nel frattempo la coppia si arrangia in una roulotte parcheggiata nel bosco. Intanto, le invasioni della privacy e i controlli sugli attivisti politici si fanno più frequenti e la propaganda di Stato semina terrore. Hannah continua a immaginare un futuro migliore, ma quando il suo bambino arriverà, quel mondo per cui si è battuta, ci sarà ancora? *********************** Questo eBook è ottimizzato per la fruizione su tablet; se ne sconsiglia pertanto la lettura sui dispositivi eReader.

Il futuro non promette bene

Roman Muradov

Tillie Walden

Leela Corman

Mike Dawson

James Kochalka

Kickily

Owen D. Pomery

Tara Booth

Simon Moreton

Mathilde Kitteh

Luca Oliveri

Jesse McManus

Donya Todd

Luke J. Halsall

Ricky Miller

Berliac

Liva Kandevica

Max Baitinger

Paloma Dawkins

Maré Odomo

Free 2016

Super-smart Julian Calendar thinks starting junior high at a new school will mean he can shed his nerdy image-but then he meets Ben and Greta, two secret scientists like himself! The three form a secret club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work to their hearts content on projects like the Stink-O-Meter, the Kablovsky Copter, and the Nightsneak Goggles. All that tinkering comes in handy when the trio discovers an evil scientist's dastardly plan to rob a museum. Can three inventors, armed with their wacky creations, hope to defeat this criminal mastermind?

Eleanor Davis

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