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Emma, Meet Gemma : A cartoon take on Flaubert becomes a British hit.(Brief Article)

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From: Newsweek International
Date: 19991108
Author:Power, Carla

Future historians researching millennial Britain can skip the dull stuff. No combing through faded Sunday supplements to figure out what brand of olive oil or embroidered mules the middle classes bought. No tracking down geriatrics to recapture the Zeitgeist. The definitive social history has been written--it's a cartoon based on Gustave Flaubert's Emma Bovary. First serialized in The Guardian newspaper over the past summer, "Gemma Bovery" is the story of the loves, debts and decorating schemes of a twentysomething designer-illustrator by cartoonist Posy Simmonds. To call it a ...

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