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Gentle satirist Posy Simmonds
Photo: PA/Empics, Richard Gray

Now 73, Posy Simmonds is the mother of the British graphic novel. Her newspaper cartoons have been gently skewering the bewildered middle classes since her creation in the late 1970s

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