Women visible in Lulu awards

As mentioned here and on many other news sites, the voting is now open for this year’s Friends of Lulu Awards.  Since the awards are all about enhancing women’s visibility in an industry that too often marginalizes and downplays them, and since there’s a lot of discussion currently going on about what real women look like, I thought I’d present the nominees pictorially:

For the Women Cartoonists’ Hall of Fame (left to right): Colleen Doran, Lily Renee Phillips, Donna Barr

For Lulu of the Year (left to right): Alison Bechdel, Abby Denson, Donna Barr (Torvald not eligible)

For the Kim Yale Award (for Best New Female Talent): Top row, Rachel Habors and June Kim; bottom row, Rivka and Joelle Jones

For the Women of Distinction Award (left to right): Jennifer deGuzman, Joan Hilty, Karen Berger

Links to all the fine work done by these women are at the FoL voting site.