Comics News Canadian Cartoonist Sophie Bédard Wins Bédélys 2020 By Hervé St-Louis June 8, 2020 - 22:30 Éditions Pow Pow Writer(s): Sophie Bédard Artist(s): Sophie Bédard ISBN: 978-2-924049-55-6 $24.95 CAD, 234 pages Release Date: April 2019 This is not a first win for Canadian cartoonist Sophie Bédard whose Les Petits garçons graphic novel has won several prizes in the French-speaking bande dessinées world since its April 2019 debut. This year, amid the pandemic, Bédard won the Liste préliminaire Prix des libraires du Québec 2020 – Bande dessinée Québec (Preliminary Bookstore Award – Quebec Comics) offered by the Festival BD de Montréal. The award was granted virtually, of course. Les petits garçons (The little boys) is coming of age story about teenaged girls. While Les Petits garçons has yet to be translated to English, publisher Pow Pow has translated some of Bédard’s previous comics, taken from her web comics in English, which includes the Joe Shuster nominated Almost Summer. © Copyright 2002-2020 by Toon Doctor Inc. - All rights Reserved. All other texts, images, characters and trademarks are copyright their respective owners. Use of material in this document (including reproduction, modification, distribution, electronic transmission or republication) without prior written permission is strictly prohibited.