Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist and illustrator. Her books include How To Be Happy, You and a Bike and a Road, Why Art? and The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook. She lives in Athens, Georgia.
"The virtuosic Eleanor Davis delves into a story of intimacy,
connection and concreteness...Davis' art, more gorgeous than ever,
lends every simple moment glorious significance."--NPR Best Books
of 2019 "The Hard Tomorrow feels as immediate as the news on your
Facebook feed and as timeless as Victor Hugo...A beautiful comic
that speaks like no other book I read this year to how hard 2019
has been on hope, and why so many of us still have some."--Slate
Best Books of 2019 "Eleanor Davis is one of the very best
cartoonists working today."--The New York Review of Books "Graphic
novelist Eleanor Davis's acclaimed book about a health worker and
her pothead husband trying to conceive in a world tottering towards
collapse."--The Guardian "The way [Eleanor Davis] draws and writes
about the lives of Hannah, an activist, and Johnny, a pothead,
gives the form its due, creating a beautiful story from the
horrible worries that plague everyone of child-bearing age."--The
Boston Globe "The Hard Tomorrow offers a well-observed and at times
suspenseful character study of two people trying to face the
future."--Atlanta Journal Constitution "The question of just what
can be made of the future, and whether anything is worth fighting
for, haunts the book... pure possibility and potential, and all the
anxiety and hope that comes with it."--Hyperallergic "In The Hard
Tomorrow, Davis uses crisp, deep blacks and pure whites for
characters who are equally solid in their convictions."--Lit Hub
"[The Hard Tomorrow] looks at a bleak and very familiar near-future
to tell a story about activism, empathy, and believing in a better
world... Davis captures facial expressions, body language, and
gestures with curving, wiry lines that imbue the artwork with both
spontaneity and grace."--The AV Club "Davis's subtle take on a
major philosophical question is an efficient and affective read for
anyone struggling to find purpose in trying times."--Library
Journal "[The Hard Tomorrow] is a very kind book. It's a very
loving book, It is a very optimistic book, despite it being a very
harsh world that they're living in."--The Hollywood Reporter
"The Hard Tomorrow makes me feel understood, and it's a reminder
that even if everything is awful, much is beautiful. The world
renews itself, over and over. Spring, at least, will come. We keep
going."--Vox "You want to read a story that will put your heart
through a wringer? You want characters of all kinds - among both
the oppressors and the oppressed, as well as history's wannabe
disinterested bystanders - who are encountered in fully human,
alive-and-breathing detail? Then you want to read this
book."--Austin Chronicle "Davis, who has a sublime illustration
style, packs all these themes [modern day anxiety, political
unrest] into a pretty short book; in less-skilled hands they would
clash."--The Toronto Star "I've always been a massive fan of
Eleanor Davis and her impressive range of drawing styles, but this
book completely stole my heart in both story and artwork."--Comics
Beat, Best of 2019 "A beautiful, character-driven, novel-like story
of how people move on and even find beauty when it seems impossible
to do either."--Booklist, starred review
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