Fred

Posy Simmonds’s Fred (1987–present, Jonathan Cape) is a single-issue comic that introduces the eponymous cat and his eccentric human family with the author’s signature blend of sharp social observation and deadpan humor. Simmonds, the sole writer and artist, crafts a deceptively simple domestic tale that quietly skewers middle-class English life through its feline narrator. Though brief, this standalone work showcases the observational wit that would define Simmonds’s later, more expansive graphic novels.