POSY SIMMONDS

TRUE LOVE: written and illustrated by Posy Simmonds. Simmonds produced this book in 1981. (images obtained from this book).

In the image above showing the cover and a page from 'True Love', the structure and composition of the images in limited spaces and lines reflect typical visual references to comic book artwork; most well recognised from American Marvel Comics. But the example of a page from her book 'True Love' which I had included on this blog shows a very limited use of colours; unlike the typical use of bold and dramatic colours in Marvel Comics illustrating action sequences and typical scenes such as explosions, fight scenes and use of dramatic text visually explaining sounds from sequences. It is newspaper cartoon strips which have limited amounts of colours; and possibly even no colours at all; only black and white.

I like the colour schemes in this book as they mainly consist of red, pink and black; because I feel it is a good method of visually communicating 'true love' in a visual and emotional method that almost anyone can recognise and understand.