Posy Simmonds is only the fifth woman and the first Briton to win the grand prix at France's prestigious Angouleme comics festival, an honour she is thrilled with -- even if toothache prevented her from collecting it in person.
Cartoons and comics have been "a boys' club for a long time and certainly over the last decades women have infiltrated it. Of course, I am really pleased to be one of them," she told AFP this week.
