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Eleanor Davis

Born

in Tucson, Arizona, The United States

January 16, 1983

Website

http://doing-fine.com/

Twitter

squinkyelo

Genre

Graphic Novels, Art

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My name is Eleanor Davis. I’m a cartoonist and illustrator. A collection of my short comics for adults, How To Be Happy, is out now from Fantagraphics Books. I have two graphic novels for kids: The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook (2009) which I created with my husband Drew Weing, and the easy-reader Stinky (2008). I live in Athens, Georgia.

Clients include: The New Yorker, The New York Times, Google, The Wall Street Journal, Plansponser, MIT Tech Review, Lucky Peach, Nautilus, Time Magazine, Telerama, Slate, BusinessWeek, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Oxford American, Nobrow Press, BUST Magazine, Charlex NYC, Fantagraphics Books, Dutton, TOON Books, First Second Books, Houghton Mifflin, Workman Publishing, and Bloomsbury B ...more

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I have a new book coming out called “Why Art?” from Fantagraphics! I will be giving a presentation...

I have a new book coming out called “Why Art?” from Fantagraphics! I will be giving a presentation of the book in DC/NY/Montreal/Toronto in the upcoming week, please come!

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Eleanor Davis’s books

Average rating: 3.9 · 23,347 ratings · 2,950 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Be Happy 3.75 avg rating — 4,703 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook 4.12 avg rating — 3,123 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You & a Bike & a Road 4.27 avg rating — 2,848 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hard Tomorrow 3.62 avg rating — 2,976 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Art? 3.88 avg rating — 2,189 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stinky 3.79 avg rating — 1,129 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Libby's Dad 3.97 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flop to the Top! by Eleanor Davis, Drew Weing 3.43 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frontier #11: BDSM 4.43 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Very Good Parade: A Picture Book 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Find the stories that help you comprehend the incomprehensible. Find the stories that make you stronger.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

tags: eleanor-davis-how-to-be-happy

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“Mountain in the distance
Move toward it
Now you're climbing it
Now you're over it
Now it's gone.”
― Eleanor Davis, You & a Bike & a Road

tags: bike, montain, road

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“Write a story
A story about yourself 
A story about your life
Now, believe it

Now write another story, same subject
A better story
More interesting
Stronger characters.
Now, believe that.

Just keep writing
You have plenty of time”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

tags: life-stories, life-story, our-stories, our-story, stories, story, story-makers, story-writing, writing, writing-process

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