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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