Cartoonist Posy Simmonds is first Brit to win prestigious French prize
Cartoonist Posy Simmonds finds it "quite extraordinary" to be the first British artist to win the Grand Prix at the Angouleme comics festival in France, considered the world's most prestigious awards for graphic novelists.
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00:22 One of my [INAUDIBLE]
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00:41 I think in my ideal world, the sex or the gender of someone
01:00 winning a prize just shouldn't be remarkable.
01:03 It should be he or she or x or y won the prize.
01:09 But it's not a perfect world.
01:13 And bande dessinée and comics has been quite a boys club
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01:22 And certainly over the last decades,
01:26 women have infiltrated it.
01:29 And so of course, I'm really pleased to be one of them.
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