List of female comics creators

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This is a list of women who have been involved with producing comic books and comic strips. Many notable female comics creators exist though the field of comics creation is traditionally male-dominated.

Africa

Ivory Coast

Marguerite Abouet: writer of Aya of Yop City

Americas

Argentina

Maitena Burundarena: Superadas

Brazil

Canada

Kate Beaton
Sheree Bradford-Lea
Emily Carroll
Svetlana Chmakova: artist/Writer, Dramacon (Tokyopop)
Julie Doucet
Leanne Franson
Lynn Johnston: creator of For Better or For Worse
Fiona Staples: artist, "Saga"
Zviane
Kate Leth: writer, Bravest Warriors (Boom! Comics), Edward Scissor Hands (IDW), Adventure Time (Boom! Comics)

United States

Platinum Age (1897–1937)

Nell Brinkley: creator of the Brinkley Girl
Rose O'Neill: creator of Kewpie Cartoon and the Kewpie doll
Grace G. Drayton, also known as Grace Gebbie Wiederseim^[1]
Margaret G. Hays: sister of Grace Drayton, frequent collaborator and independent writer
Ethel Hays: artist on Flapper Fanny Says, among other Flapper-themed newspaper and magazine features

Golden Age/Silver Age (1930s to approx. 1970)

Nina Albright: artist for comics packager Bernard Baily Studio^[2]
Ruth Atkinson a.k.a. Ruth Atkinson Ford, R. Atkinson: artist, Fiction House, Timely Comics, Lev Gleason Publications
Violet Barclay: Timely/Atlas Comics inker
Toni Blum: writer, Eisner & Iger studio
Linda Fite: writer, The Cat (Marvel Comics)
Ramona Fradon: artist, Aquaman and Metamorpho (DC Comics); also, Brenda Starr comic strip (1980–1996)
Barbara Hall: artist, Black Cat, Girl Commandos, the Blonde Bomber
Ray Herman:^[3] 1940s editor at Holyoke Publishing and elsewhere.^[4]
Patricia Highsmith; Nedor/Standard/Better Comics and others
Virginia Hubbell: Charles Biro's ghost writer, Lev Gleason Publications' Crime Does Not Pay^[5]
Lee Marrs: artist-writer for Star Reach, elsewhere (1970s)
Alice Marble: associate editor on Wonder Woman from 1941-1945, creator/writer of "Wonder Women of History" feature from 1942-1946.
Elizabeth Holloway Marston: involved in the creation of DC Comics character, Wonder Woman
Tarpe Mills, pseudonym of June Mills: Cat-Man (Holyoke Comics), Miss Fury
Lily Renée a.k.a. Reney (Lily Renée Wilhelms Peters and Lily Renée Phlllips): Fiction House and St. John Publications artist
Ruth Roche: generally credited writer of Phantom Lady (Fox Comics)
Marie Severin: Prolific EC and Marvel Comics artist
Marcia Snyder: Fiction House artist
Daisy Swayze: Fawcett Comics letterer; sister of artist Marc Swayze^[6]
Janice Valleau: Quality Comics artist^[5]
Tatjana Wood: Shazam Award-winning colorist
Dorothy Woolfolk a.k.a. Dorothy Roubicek: DC Comics' first woman editor

Bronze Age and Modern Age

Laura Allred
Sana Amanat: editor, Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
Fiona Avery
Samm Barnes: Marvel Comics writer
Amber Benson: writer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse Comics)
Karen Berger: editor, DC Comics' Vertigo imprint
Maddie Blaustein: writer, Milestone Comics' Hardware
June Brigman: artist and co-creator, Power Pack (Marvel Comics); Artist Brenda Starr comic strip (1996-)
Sarah Byam: writer, Black Canary (DC Comics), Mode Extreme (Marvel/Razorline)
Roz Chast : New Yorker staff cartoonist The Party After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995-2003
Bobbie Chase: Marvel Comics editor
Jo Chen: cover artist, Dark Horse Comics's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
Joyce Chin: artist, Wynonna Earp (IDW),
Becky Cloonan: writer and artist.
Nancy A. Collins: writer, DC/Vertigo's Swamp Thing
Amanda Conner: artist, The Pro (Image Comics), Disney's Gargoyles (Marvel Comics)
Colleen Coover: writer and artist.
Rosario Dawson: writer and co-creator, Occult Crimes Taskforce Image Comics
Kelly Sue DeConnick: writer, Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics), Avengers Assemble (Marvel Comics)
Tania del Rio: artist/Writer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Archie Comics)
Rachel Dodson: inker, Marvel and DC
Colleen Doran: writer and artist, A Distant Soil (Image Comics)
Valerie D'Orazio: Assistant editor, DC Comics
Leigh Dragoon: artist, By the Wayside
Jo Duffy a.k.a. Mary Jo Duffy: writer and Marvel Comics editor
Jan Duursema: artist, Star Wars: Legacy (Dark Horse Comics)
Mary Fleener: artist and writer, Slutburger
Kaja Foglio: writer and co-creator, Girl Genius (Studio Foglio)
Robin Furth: plotter, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (Marvel Comics)
Shaenon K. Garrity: writer, Marvel Comics' Marvel Holiday Special
Megan Rose Gedris: writer, artist and creator, YU+ME:dream, I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space (Platinum Studios)^[7]
Devin Grayson: writer, Arsenal, Batman: Gotham Knights, Catwoman, Nightwing (all DC Comics)
Pia Guerra: artist, Vertigo's Y The Last Man
Tini Howard: writer, co-writer Magdelena (comics), Poseidon IX
Judith Hunt: co-writer, co-creator, artist Evangeline (Comico)1984 and online comic Evangeline (August 2008)
Kathryn Immonen: writer, Journey into Mystery, Runaways (Marvel Comics)
Jenna Jameson: creator and plotter, Shadow Hunter (Virgin Comics)
Jenette Kahn: editor and executive, DC Comics
Carol Kalish: executive, Marvel Comics
Shawn Kerri: cartoonist, Cracked, CARtoons Magazine
Barbara Kesel a.k.a. Barbara Randall Kesel: writer, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales (IDW Publishing)
Caitlin R. Kiernan: writer, Vertigo's The Dreaming
Kim Krizan: writer, BOOM! Studio comics
Elaine Lee: writer, Vamps (DC Comics), Saint Sinner (Marvel/Razorline)
Marjorie Liu: writer, X-23, Black Widow, Dark Wolverine, NYX, Astonishing X-Men (Marvel Comics)
Cynthia Martin, artist for (among others) Marvel Comics's Star Wars
Laura Martin: Colorist, Planetary (DC Comics/WildStorm), Astonishing X-Men (Marvel Comics), Ruse (CrossGen)
Tara McPherson: Cover artist, Vertigo
Adriana Melo: artist, Ms. Marvel (Marvel Comics)
Denise Mina: writer, Vertigo's Hellblazer
Leah Moore: writer, Wildstorm's Albion
Mindy Newell: writer/editor, Marvel, DC, and First
Ann Nocenti: writer, Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
Sonia Oback: Colorist, "Uncanny X-Men", "X-23: Target X" (Marvel Comics)
Glynis Oliver: Colorist, X-Men (Marvel Comics)
Sara Pichelli: artist, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Comics)
Jodi Picoult: writer, DC's Wonder Woman
Tamora Pierce: writer, Marvel Comics' White Tiger
Wendy Pini: artist and co-creator, Elfquest (WaRP Graphics), and Masque of the Red Death (Go! Comi)
Rachel Pollack: writer, Doom Patrol (DC Comics)
Janice Race: editor, DC Comics
Amy Reeder: artist and co-creator, Rocket Girl (Image Comics)
Emma Rios: artist, "Pretty Deadly"
Jessica Ruffner: writer, Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures (Marvel Comics/Dabel Brothers)
Sara Ryan: writer, Me and Edith Head
Nicola Scott: artist, Birds of Prey (DC Comics)
Diana Schutz: editor, Dark Horse Comics
Erica Schultz: writer, "Revenge: The Secret Origin of Emily Thorne" (Marvel Comics)^[8]
Gail Simone: writer, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman (all DC Comics)
Louise Simonson a.k.a. Louise Jones: Marvel Comics editor; Writer and co-creator, Power Pack (Marvel Comics);
Mary Skrenes: writer and co-creator, Omega the Unknown (Marvel Comics)
Roxanne Starr: Letterer
Christina Strain: Colorist, Runaways and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (all Marvel Comics)
Babs Tarr: artist, Batgirl (DC Comics)
Jill Thompson: artist and writer, Wonder Woman, Sandman, and her own Scary Godmother series
Maggie Thompson: editor, Comics Buyer's Guide magazine
Kathleen Webb: writer, Betty (Archie Comics)
Christina Weir: writer, Oni Press
G. Willow Wilson: writer, Cairo (Vertigo), Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
Kim Yale: writer/editor, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, First Comics, and Warp Graphics

OEL manga

Tina Anderson Writer, Only Words (Iris Print), Games With Me (The Wild Side), Loud Snow (Gynocrat INK)
Jo Chen: artist, Digital Manga's In These Words
Becky Cloonan: artist, AiT/Planet Lar's Demo
Alex de Campi: writer, Kat & Mouse (Tokyopop)
Camilla D’Errico: artist, Make 5 Wishes (Del Rey Manga), Nightmares & Fairy Tales (Slave Labour Graphics)
Joanna Estep: artist, Roadsong (Tokyopop)
Amy Kim Ganter Artist/Writer, Sorcerers & Secretaries (Tokyopop)
Holly Golightly a.k.a. Holly G!, Fauve: artist/Writer, School Bites (Broadsword Comics)
Priscilla Hamby: artist
Lea Hernandez: artist, Marvel Comics' Marvel Mangaverse: Punisher
Gisele Lagace: artist, writer, Pixie Trix Comix, Archie Comics
Nina Matsumoto: artist/Writer, "Yōkaiden" (Del Rey Manga)
Amy Reeder: artist/Writer, Fool's Gold (Tokyopop)
Rivkah: artist/Writer, Steady Beat (Tokyopop)

Alternative comics

Jessica Abel: writer-artist, La Perdida (Fantagraphics)
Jennie Breeden: writer-artist, The Devil's Panties
Donna Barr: creator Stinz, The Desert Peach
Alison Bechdel: creator Dykes to Watch Out For
Gabrielle Bell: writer/artist, Lucky (Drawn and Quarterly)
Joyce Brabner: writer, Our Cancer Year
Paige Braddock: creator Jane's World
Vera Brosgol
M.K. Brown: creator Aunt Mary's Kitchen and Dr. N!Godatu
Jennifer Camper
Geneviève Castrée
Chynna Clugston: creator, Oni Press's Blue Monday
Colleen Coover: creator Small Favors
Danielle Corsetto: creator Girls With Slingshots^[9]
Sophie Crumb: writer/artist, Belly Button (Fantagraphics)
Dame Darcy: creator, Fantagraphics' Meatcake
Vanessa Davis: creator, writer/artist, Spaniel Rage, Make Me a Woman (Drawn and Quarterly)
Abby Denson: creator Tough Love: High School Confidential
Diane DiMassa
Colleen Doran: creator A Distant Soil
Julie Doucet: creator Dirty Plotte
Sarah Dyer
Jess Fink: creator Chester 5000 XYV (Top Shelf)
Mary Fleener
Shary Flenniken: creator Trots and Bonnie
Ellen Forney
Shaenon Garrity: creator, Narbonic webcomic
Melinda Gebbie: artist, Lost Girls (Top Shelf Productions)
Nicole Georges: writer/artist, Invincible Summer (Microcosm Publishing)
Phoebe Gloeckner: creator A Child's Life and The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Roberta Gregory: creator Naughty Bits (Fantagraphics)
G.B. Jones
Megan Kelso: writer/artist, Artichoke Tales (Fantagraphics)
Lucy Knisley: writer/artist, French Milk (Simon and Schuster), Relish (First Second Books), An Age of License and Displacement (Fantagraphics), Something New (First Second Books)
Aline Kominsky-Crumb: creator The Bunch
Carol Lay
Hope Larson : Gray Horses and Salamander Dream
Carla Speed McNeil: writer/artist, Finder
Erika Moen: writer/artist, DAR!; artist, Bucko (Dark Horse Comics)^[10]
Diane Noomin: creator DiDi Glitz
Christine Norrie: artist, Hopeless Savages (Oni Press)
Liz Prince : Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed
Trina Robbins: writer-artist, Ms. Tree (Eclipse Comics)
Ariel Schrag: creator, Awkward (Slave Labor Graphics)
Dori Seda: 1980s underground satirist
Tara Seibel: co-creator/artist/writer, Rock City Terminally Ill (Newcity)
Raina Telgemeier: writer/artist, Smile (A Dental Drama)
Carol Tyler: cartoonist; books include The Job Thing (Fantagraphics, 1993) ISBN 1-56097-111-8
Serena Valentino: writer, Slave Labor Graphics' Gloom Cookie
Lauren Weinstein: writer/artist The Goddess of War
Julia Wertz: writer/artist, Fart Party, Drinking at the Movies
Kate Worley: creator, Omaha the Cat Dancer
Catherine Yronwode: editor-in-chief of Eclipse Comics
Joyce Farmer: writer/artist, "Tits & Clits Comix"
Marisa Acocella Marchetto: writer-artist, "Cancer Vixen"

Comic strips

Lynda Barry: The New Yorker
Sandra Bell-Lundy: creator Between Friends
Marjorie Henderson Buell under pseudonym "Marge": Little Lulu
Kate Carew, pseudonym of Mary Williams: Handy Andy strip in U.K. comic magazine Krazy; The Angel Child
Nellie Caroll: creator Lady Chatter (Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 1965–66)
Natalie d'Arbeloff: Creator Augustine (Blaugustine webcomic)
Edwina Dumm under pseudonym "Edwina": The Meanderings of Minnie; Cap Stubbs and Tippie
Jan Eliot: creator Stone Soup
Cathy Guisewite: creator Cathy
Alex Hallatt: creator Arctic Circle
Bunny Hoest: writer The Lockhorns (1971-)
Nicole Hollander: creator Sylvia
Judith Hunt: artist, Timbertoes Published by Highlights for Children
Lynn Johnston: creator For Better or For Worse
Terri Libenson: creator The Pajama Diaries
Marty Links: creator Emmy Lou
Dale Messick: creator Brenda Starr
Gladys Parker: creator Mopsy
Rina Piccolo: creator Tina's Groove
Mary Schmich: writer Brenda Starr (1985-)
Margaret Shulock: Apartment 3-G, Six Chix
Hilda Terry: Teena

Asia

Europe

Austria

Ulli Lust

England

Posy Simmonds Writer/Artist of Tamara Drewe

Finland

France / Belgium

Norway

Russia

Svetlana Chmakova: artist/Writer, Dramacon (Tokyopop)

Spain

Sweden

Coco Moodysson

Oceania

Australia

Queenie Chan: artist/writer, The Dreaming (Tokyopop)
Madeleine Rosca

New Zealand

Titane Laurent: God's Stuff

References

↑ Grace Drayton
↑ Jerry Bails' "Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999: Bernard Baily Studio
↑ Sometimes spelled "Rae Herman", though artist Mort Leav was cited in Alter Ego #60 (July 2006), p. 54, as recalling her first name spelled "Ray".
↑ Alter Ego #60 (July 2006), p. 54, interview with artist Tony DiPreta, who said her next company after Holyoke might have been Orbit, based in Columbus Circle in Manhattan.
1 2 Hajdu, David. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America, page 5. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. ISBN 0-374-18767-3; ISBN 978-0-374-18767-5.
↑ "We Didn't Know it was the Golden Age" (column), by Marc Swayze: Alter Ego #5 (Summer 2000), pp. 40-41
↑ Credits Page, I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space #1 (May 2008), Platinum Studios
↑ http://marvel.com/news/comics/2014/2/18/21966/discover_secrets_in_the_revenge_original_graphic_novel
↑ "About Danielle and GWS". Girls With Slingshots. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
↑ "Bucko HC". Retrieved 14 September 2012.
↑ "Young Black Jack Manga Inspired by Tezuka Classic". Anime News Network. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
↑ "CHIYA Toriko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 11, 2014.
↑ "CHIYA Toriko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 11, 2014.
↑ "CONAMI Shôko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 3, 2015.
↑ "FUJIMURA Mari". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved March 11, 2016.
↑ "HOSOKAWA Chieko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 11, 2014.
↑ "HOSOKAWA Chieko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 11, 2014.
↑ "HOZUMI". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 27, 2014.
↑ "Kashimashi's Inugami Launches Ashita mo Kotokoto Manga". Anime News Network. 2012-09-16. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
↑ "KAWAHARA Kazune". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 22, 2014.
↑ "KAZUI Kazumi". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved May 14, 2015.
↑ "KINDAICHI Renjûrô". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved April 7, 2015.
↑ "KÔDA Momoko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved 2013-03-07.
↑ "KUBO Mitsuro / KUBO Mitsurô". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved February 29, 2016.
↑ "KUI Ryôko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 6, 2015.
↑ "MAITA Nao". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 11, 2014.
↑ "MAITA Nao". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 11, 2014.
↑ "Jûhan Shuttai! vo". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 14, 2014.
↑ "MATSUDA Naoko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 14, 2014.
↑ Loveridge, Lynzee (March 15, 2016). "Japanese AV Star Revealed as Shonen Jump+ Manga Writer". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
↑ "MIKIMOTO Rin". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 23, 2014.
↑ "ReRe Hello vo". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 14, 2014.
↑ "MINAMI Tôko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 14, 2014.
↑ "Hachimitsu ni Hatsukoi vo". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 13, 2014.
↑ "MINASE Ai". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 13, 2014.
↑ "Saiyuki Ibun Manga Resumes After 28-Month Hiatus". Anime News Network. 2012-11-16. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
↑ "MORIMOTO Kozueko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved March 11, 2016.
↑ "Interview with Yuri Manga Artist Morishima Akiko". okazu.yuricon.com. October 25, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
↑ "MORISHITA Suu". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved November 14, 2014.
↑ "MURATA Mayu". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 11, 2014.
↑ "Berry Dynamite". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 14, 2014.
↑ "NAKAMURA Yoshiki". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved April 27, 2015.
↑ "Chisa x Pon/Hetakoi Manga Creator Junko Nakano Passes Away". Anime News Network. 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
↑ "NANAJI Nagamu". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved June 5, 2015.
↑ "NANBA Atsuko". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved April 7, 2015.
↑ Jason Thompson (2013-02-14). "Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga Cipher". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
↑ "Manga Explores Classical Performing Arts of Noh, Kabuki". Anime News Network. 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
↑ "SHIINA / SHÎNA Chika". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved May 25, 2015.
↑ "SHOUOTO Aya 硝音あや". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved 28 July 2014.
↑ "SUGITO Akira". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 3, 2015.
↑ "SUGIYAMA Miwako". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved April 10, 2015.
↑ "Boys-Love Manga Artist Asami Tojo Passes Away". Anime News Network. 2007-11-04. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
↑ "TAKANO Ichigo". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 26, 2014.
↑ "TANAKA Meca". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved June 5, 2015.
↑ "UMINO Tsunami". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved May 12, 2015.
↑ "YABUUCHI Yû". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved January 9, 2015.
↑ "UNITA Yumi". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 19, 2014.

External links

Chenault, Wesley (2007). Working The Margins: Women In The Comic Book Industry (Thesis). College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 25, 2009.

List of female comics creators

Africa

Ivory Coast

Americas

Argentina

Brazil

Canada

United States

Platinum Age (1897–1937)

Golden Age/Silver Age (1930s to approx. 1970)

Bronze Age and Modern Age

OEL manga

Alternative comics

Comic strips

Asia

China

Japan

South Korea

Europe

Austria

England

Finland

France / Belgium

Norway

Russia

Spain

Sweden

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

See also

References

External links

Further reading