This year’s Friends of Lulu Award winners have been announced. The Lulu Award “recognizes the people and projects that helped to open eyes and minds to the amazing comic and cartooning work by and/or about women. The category award winners are below:
Kim Yale Award For Best New Talent: Kate Beaton for Hark, a Vagrant
Lulu of the Year: Danielle Corsetto for Girls with Slingshots
Woman of Distinction: Joanne Carter Siegel
Leah Adezio Award for Best Kid-Friendly Work: Rapunzel’s Revenge, by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and Nathan Hale
Female Comic Creator’s Hall of Fame: Gail Simone
Best Female Character: Monica Villarreal, from Wapsi Square by Paul Taylor
Congrats to all the winners and a big hug to Friends of Lulu – a great group promoting women cartoonists!
Congratulations! I’m a bit familiar with Kate’s and Danielle’s work and they’re both exceptional cartoonists!