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How to Be Happy is Eleanor Davis''s first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Happy represents the best stories she''s drawn for such connoisseurial venues as Mome, Nobrow, and Lucky Peach, 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. Imaginative and funny and fanciful, but it''s also very thoroughly worked out. She''s not afraid to be clear. - Françoise Mouly I challenge anyone not to want to live in the world Eleanor creates. - It''s Nice That