Comics artist Gail Simone beat out mangaka group CLAMP, as well as Natsuki Takaya, creator of Fruits Basket, for the 2009 Lulu Awards' Female Cartoonists And Comic Book Writer’s Hall of Fame.
The winners were announced last week by the Friends of Lulu, a national organization whose main purpose is to “promote and encourage female readership and participation in the comic book industry.”
The Lulu Awards recognize “the people and projects that helped to open eyes and minds to the amazing comic and cartooning work by and/or about women.”
To see the details on all the winners, click here.
CLAMP is the all-female Japanese mangaka responsible for such titles as X/1999, Magic Knight Rayearth, Angelic Layer, Chobits and Cardcaptor Sakura.
Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket ran from 1999 to 2007 and was collected into 23 volumes.
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