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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 · 22,813 ratings · 2,838 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Be Happy 3.75 avg rating — 4,627 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 — 3,120 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	You & a Bike & a Road 4.27 avg rating — 2,677 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 3.63 avg rating — 2,867 ratings — published 2019 — 9 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 — 2,128 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 — 1,126 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Libby's Dad 3.97 avg rating — 232 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, Dreq Weing 3.44 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Frontier #11: BDSM 4.44 avg rating — 41 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
	Medicare & Social Security Blueprint for Retirement: Everything You Need to Know to Choose the Right Plan, Access the Care You Deserve, and Avoid Mistakes that Could Cost You Thousands it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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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