num_pages: 146
description: 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.
language: English
title: How To Be Happy
publisher: Fantagraphics