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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.
[edit] American comics
[edit] Platinum Age (1897–1937)
- Nina Albright : Artist for comics packager Bernard Baily Studio[3]
- Ruth Atkinson a.k.a. Ruth Atkinson Ford, R. Atkinson: Artist, Fiction House, Timely Comics, Lev Gleason Publications
- Olive Bailey: Artist, Land of the Lost
- 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)
- Ray Herman[4]: 1940s editor at Holyoke Publishing and elsewhere.[5]
- Patricia Highsmith; Nedor/Standard/Better Comics and others
- Fran Hopper: Fiction House artist[citation needed]
- Virginia Hubbell: Charles Biro's ghost writer, Lev Gleason Publications' Crime Does Not Pay[6]
- Pauline Loth: Timely/Atlas artist[citation needed]
- Lee Marrs: Artist-writer for Star Reach, elsewhere (1970s)
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston: involved in the creation of DC Comics character, Wonder Woman
- Ruth McCully: Fiction House letterer[citation needed]
- Marion McDermott: St. John Publications editor[citation needed]
- Tarpe Mills, pseudonym of June Mills: Cat-Man (Holyoke Comics), Miss Fury
- Ramona Patenaude a.k.a. Pat: artist, Blue Beetle (Fox Comics)[citation needed]
- Lily Renée a.k.a. Reney (Lily Renée Wilhelms Peters and Lily Renée Phlllips): Fiction House and St. John Publications artist[citation needed]
- Ruth Roche: generally credited writer of Phantom Lady (Fox Comics)[citation needed]
- Marie Severin: Prolific EC and Marvel Comics artist
- Marcia Snyder: Fiction House artist[citation needed]
- Daisy Swayze: Fawcett Comics letterer; sister of artist Marc Swayze[7]
- Janice Valleau: Quality Comics artist[6]
- Tatjana Wood: Shazam Award-winning colorist
- Dorothy Woolfolk a.k.a. Dorothy Roubicek: DC Comics' first woman editor
- Laura Allred
- Fiona Avery
- Samm Barnes: Marvel Comics writer
- Donna Barstow: Writer and cartoonist, The New Yorker, and: What Do Women Really Want? Chocolate! (2004, NBM Publishing) ISBN 1-56163-383-6, and Love Me or Go to Hell: True Love Cartoons (2005, Andrews McMeel Universal) ISBN 0-7407-5698-2
- Anina Bennett: Writer, editor at First Comics and Dark Horse Comics. Co-creator of Heartbreakers[citation needed]
- Amber Benson: Writer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse Comics)
- Karen Berger: Editor, DC Comics' Vertigo imprint
- Maddie Blaustein: Writer, Milestone Comics' Hardware
- Nicole Boose: Editor, Cable & Deadpool (Marvel Comics)[citation needed]
- 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)
- Kat Cahill, Writer and creator, I Hate Gallant Girl (Image Comics/ShadowLine)[8]
- Roz Chast : New Yorker staff cartoonist The Party After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995-2003
- Meloney Crawford Chadwick: Harris Comics editor[citation needed]
- Bobbie Chase: Marvel Comics editor[citation needed]
- Joyce Chin: Artist, Wynonna Earp (IDW),
- 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.
- Joanna Davidovich[citation needed]
- Rosario Dawson: Writer and co-creator, Occult Crimes Taskforce Image Comics
- Renae De Liz, Artist, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales (IDW Publishing)[9]
- 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
- 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, I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space (Platinum Studios)[10]
- Devin Grayson: Writer, Arsenal, Batman: Gotham Knights, Catwoman, Nightwing (all DC Comics)
- Pia Guerra: Artist, Vertigo's Y The Last Man
- Sandra Hope: Inker, World of Warcraft (WildStorm)[citation needed]
- Eva Hopkins: Writer, colorist and co-creator, Dark Ivory (Image Comics)[11]
- Heidi Hughes: Writer, The Voyages of The SheBuccaneer (Great Big Comics)[12]
- Judith Hunt: Co-writer,co-creator, artist Evangeline (Comico)1984 and online comic Evangeline (August 2008)
- Lora Innes: Writer, artist and creator, The Dreamer (IDW Publishing)[13]
- Jenna Jameson: Creator and plotter, Shadow Hunter (Virgin Comics)
- Jenette Kahn: editor and executive, DC Comics
- Carol Kalish: executive, Marvel Comics
- Annette Kawecki: Marvel Comics letterer[citation needed]
- Barbara Kesel a.k.a. Barbara Randall Kesel: Writer, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales (IDW Publishing)
- Sheila Keenan: Executive Editor, Scholastic Graphix[citation needed]
- Caitlin R. Kiernan: Writer, Vertigo's The Dreaming
- Kim Krizan: Writer, BOOM! Studio comics
- Elaine Lee: Writer, Vamps (DC Comics), Saint Sinner (Marvel/Razorline)
- Stephanie Lesniak: Artist and co-creator, Blazin' Brandy (Scrap Pictures)[citation needed]
- Linda Ly: Writer, Grimm Fairy Tales (Zenescope Entertainment)[14]
- 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)
- Rachelle Menashe: Writer, Virus (Dark Horse Comics)[citation needed]
- Denise Mina: Writer, Vertigo's Hellblazer
- Mary Mitchell: Artist, Batman: Gotham Knights (DC Comics)[citation needed]
- Leah Moore: Writer, Wildstorm's Albion
- Melanie J. Morgan: Writer, Betty and Veronica, Jughead (Archie Comics)[15]
- 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)
- Lisa Patrick: Marvel Comics editor[citation needed]
- 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
- Nickiesha Ashanty Ricketts: Writer and Editor[citation needed]
- Susana Romero: Founder, ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio
- 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
- Barbara Schulz: Inker, Books of Magic (Vertigo), Micronauts (Image/Devils)
- Jean Simek: Letterer, Marvel Comics and Topps Comics; daughter of Artie Simek[citation needed]
- Kristen Simon: Editor in Chief, Shadowline Comics (Jim Valentino's imprint at Image Comics)[citation needed]
- 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)[citation needed]
- Barbara Slate: Writer, Betty (Archie Comics)[citation needed]
- Beth Sotelo: Colorist, Soul Fire: Dying of the Light (Aspen MLT), Atomika (Mercury Comics)
- Christina Strain: Colorist, Runaways and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (all Marvel 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)
- Amy Wolfram: Writer, Teen Titans: Year One (DC Comics)[16]
- Kim Yale: Writer/editor, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, First Comics, and Warp Graphics
- Christina Z: Writer, Witchblade (Image Comics/Top Cow Productions), Shadow Hunter (Virgin Comics)[citation needed]
[edit] American manga
- Tina Anderson Writer, Only Words (Iris Print), Games With Me (The Wild Side), Loud Snow (Gynocrat INK)
- Queenie Chan: Artist/Writer, The Dreaming (Tokyopop)
- Jo Chen: Artist, Wildstorm's Racer X
- Svetlana Chmakova: Artist/Writer, Dramacon (Tokyopop)
- Lindsay Cibos: Artist/Writer, Peach Fuzz (Tokyopop)[citation needed]
- Becky Cloonan: Artist, AiT/Planet Lar's Demo
- Jinky Coronado a.k.a. Meryl "Jinky" Coronado Calanog Campiti: Artist/Writer, Banzai Girl (Arcana Studio)[citation needed]
- Alex de Campi: Writer, Kat & Mouse (Tokyopop)
- Melissa DeJesus: Artist, Sokora Refugees (Tokyopop), daily comic strip My Cage[citation needed]
- Camilla D’Errico: Artist, Make 5 Wishes (Del Rey Manga), Nightmares & Fairy Tales (Slave Labour Graphics)
- Joanna Estep: Artist, Roadsong (Tokyopop)
- Irene Flores: Artist, Mark of the Succubus (Tokyopop)[citation needed]
- 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
- Amy Reeder Hadley: Artist/Writer, Fool's Gold (Tokyopop)
- Lea Hernandez: Artist, Marvel Comics' Marvel Mangaverse: Punisher
- Nina Matsumoto: Artist/Writer, "Yōkaiden" (Del Rey Manga)
[edit] Alternative comics
- Carmen Aquino : Writer-artist, "Shaya" "HARLEM" "I Love Alien!"
- Jessica Abel: Writer-artist, La Perdida (Fantagraphics)
- Jennie Breeden: Writer-artist, The Devil's Panties
- Donna Barr
- Fallon Star: Writer, "Epic Win"
- 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: WOELV
- Shannon Chenoweth: Creator/Writer The Line (Misfit Comics)[citation needed]
- Chynna Clugston: Creator, Oni Press's Blue Monday
- Colleen Coover: Creator Small Favors
- Danielle Corsetto: Creator Girls With Slingshots[citation needed]
- Sophie Crumb: Writer/artist, Belly Button (Fantagraphics)
- Dame Darcy: Creator, Fantagraphics' Meatcake
- Jennifer Daydreamer: Creator, Jennifer Daydreamer[citation needed]
- Abby Denson: Creator Tough Love: High School Confidential
- Diane DiMassa
- Colleen Doran: Creator A Distant Soil
- Julie Doucet: Creator Dirty Plotte
- Sarah Dyer
- Mary Fleener
- Shary Flenniken: Creator Trots and Bonnie
- Ellen Forney
- Shaenon Garrity: Creator, Narbonic webcomic
- Melinda Gebbie: Artist, Lost Girls (Top Shelf Productions)
- 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)
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb: Creator The Bunch
- Carol Lay
- Hope Larson : Gray Horses and Salamander Dream
- Vanesa Littlecrow: Creator, Nine Lives of Catnose
- Carla Speed McNeil: Writer/artist, Finder
- 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
- Terrie Smith: Artist, Chester Ringtail
- Tara Tallan: Creator & writer-artist Galaxion (Helikon Comics)[citation needed]
- 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
- Penny Van Horn: Cartoonist; book Recipe for Disaster and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1999) ISBN 1-56097-330-7[citation needed]
- Sara Varon: Writer/artist, Sweaterweather (Alternative Comics)[citation needed]
- Lauren Weinstein: Writer/artist The Goddess of War
- Kate Worley: Creator, Omaha the Cat Dancer
- catherine yronwode: Editor-in-chief of Eclipse Comics
- Jess Fink: Creator Chester 5000
[edit] American comic strips
[edit] Japanese manga
- Akira Amano
- Yuki Amemiya: Creator of 07-Ghost together with Yukino Ichihara
- Yasuko Aoike
- Kiyoko Arai: Creator: Angel Lip, Ask Dr. Rin!
- Hiromu Arakawa: Creator/artist/writer "Fullmetal Alchemist"
- Sakura Asagi
- Hinako Ashihara: Creator of Sand Chronicles
- Izumi Aso
- Clamp: Creators RG Veda, Magic Knight Rayearth, Cardcaptor Sakura, Angelic Layer, Chobits, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic
- Nariko Enomoto
- Kazuko Fujita: Creator of Makoto Call!, Four Steps to Romance
- Cocoa Fujiwara: Creator of dear, Inu x Boku SS
- Hiro Fujiwara
- Moto Hagio
- Nanae Haruno
- Bisco Hatori
- Akiko Higashimura: Creator Kisekae Yuka-chan, Himawari - Kenichi Legend, Mama ha Temparish
- Asa Higuchi: Creator of Big Windup!
- Matsuri Hino: Creator: Vampire Knight
- Yumi Hotta: Writer of Hikaru no Go
- Yukari Ichijo
- Yumiko Igarashi
- Riyoko Ikeda: Creator The Rose of Versailles
- Ryo Ikuemi: Creator of Bara-Iro no Ashita, Kiyoku Yawaku
- Risa Itō: Creator of Oi Pītan!!, Oruchuban Ebichu
- Natsumi Itsuki
- Mariko Iwadate
- Kaneyoshi Izumi: Creator: Sonnanja neyo
- Yuna Kagesaki: Creator of Chibi Vampire
- Junko Karube
- Yumiko Kawahara
- Mizuki Kawashita: Creator of Strawberry 100%, First Love Limited, Anedoki
- Toshie Kihara
- Miyuki Kobayashi
- Yun Kōga
- Erika Kurahashi: Creator Seikimatsu no Angel, Max Lovely!
- Fusako Kuramochi
- Yuki Kure
- Miyako Maki
- Temari Matsumoto: Art, Kyo Kara Maoh! Creator of Just My Luck, The Loudest Whisper: Uwasa No Futari, Shinobu Kokoro: Hidden Heart, Cause of My Teacher
- Akemi Matsunae
- Suzue Miuchi
- Kyoko Mizuki: Writer: Candy Candy
- Hideko Mizuno: Creator of Fire!, Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken
- Junko Mizuno: Creator/artist/writer "Pure Trance" among many other notable works
- Milk Morinaga: Creator of Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo, Girl Friends
- Milk Morizono
- Maki Murakami
- Mayumi Muroyama
- Aya Nakahara: Creator of Love Com
- Kiriko Nananan: Creator of blue, strawberry shortcakes
- Tomoko Ninomiya
- Keiko Nishi: Creator of Sanban-chō Hagiwara-ya no Bijin, Love Song
- Miho Obana: Creator Kodomo no Omocha
- Akane Ogura: Creator Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen
- Saori Oguri: Creator of Is He Turning Japanese?
- Reiko Okano: Creator of Fancy Dance
- Hiromu Ono: Creator Lady Love
- Minami Ozaki
- Mari Ozawa
- Peach-Pit
- Marimo Ragawa: Creator Baby and Me
- Akizuki Risu
- Fumi Saimon
- Momoko Sakura: Creator Chibi Maruko-chan
- Kanoko Sakurakoji: Creator of Backstage Prince, Black Bird
- Erica Sakurazawa
- Machiko Satonaka
- Reiko Shimizu
- Takako Shimura: Creator of Aoi Hana, Wandering Son
- Mayu Shinjo: Creator of Sensual Phrase, Akuma na Eros, Haou Airen, Love Celeb , Ai Ore!
- Fuyumi Soryo
- Hinako Sugiura
- Julietta Suzuki
- Haruko Tachiiri
- Megumi Tachikawa
- Kaoru Tada
- Rumiko Takahashi: Creator Urusei Yatsura, Ranma ½, Inu Yasha
- Natsuki Takaya
- Naoko Takeuchi: Creator Sailor Moon
- Yumi Tamura: Creator of Basara, Chicago, 7 Seeds
- Yellow Tanabe: Creator of Kekkaishi
- Ema Tōyama: Creator Pixie Pop, Koko ni iru yo!
- Shungicu Uchida: Creator of Minami-kun no Koibito
- Miwa Ueda: Creator Peach Girl
- Kimiko Uehara
- Chica Umino: Creator Honey and Clover, March Comes in Like a Lion
- Yuki Urushibara: Creator of Mushishi
- Masako Watanabe
- Yuu Watase: Creator of Fushigi Yūgi, Ceres, Celestial Legend, Absolute Boyfriend
- Murasaki Yamada
- Ryoko Yamagishi
- Ebine Yamaji
- Sumika Yamamoto
- Kazumi Yamashita: Creator of The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa
- Waki Yamato
- Ai Yazawa
- Akimi Yoshida
- Fumi Yoshinaga: Creator Antique Bakery, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
- Wataru Yoshizumi: Creator of Handsome na Kanojo, Marmalade Boy, Ultra Maniac
- Kaori Yuki: Creator of Earl Cain, Angel Sanctuary
[edit] Others
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ RoseONeil.org (Bonniebrook Historical Society official site)
- ^ 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".
- ^ Ibid., interview with artist Tony DiPreta, who said her next company after Holyoke might have been Orbit, based in Columbus Circle in Manhattan.
- ^ a b 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 Hate Gallant Girl #1 (November 2008), Image Comics
- ^ Credits Page, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales #1 (February 2008), IDW Publishing
- ^ Credits Page, I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space #1 (May 2008), Platinum Studios
- ^ Credits Page, Dark Ivory #1 (March 2008), (Image Comics)
- ^ Credits Page, The Voyages of The SheBuccaneer #1 (2008), Great Big Comics
- ^ Credits Page, The Dreamer #1 (October 2008), IDW Publishing
- ^ Credits Page, Grimm Fairy Tales #25 (March 2008), Zenescope Entertainment
- ^ Credits Page, Jughead's Double Digest #139 (June 2008), Archie Comic Publications
- ^ "Flash in the Pan", Teen Titans Year One #4 (June 2008), DC Comics
[edit] External links
[edit] Further reading
- Horn, Maurice. Women in the Comics (Chelsea House; New York, London; 1977) ISBN 0-87754-056-X; (trade paperback) ISBN o-97754-205-8
- Robbins, Trina. A Century of Women Cartoonists (Kitchen Sink, 1993) ISBN 0-87816-206-2
- Robbins, Trina. From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines (Chronicle, 1999) ISBN 0-8118-2199-4
- Robbins, Trina. The Great Women Cartoonists (Watson-Guptill, 2001) ISBN 0-8230-2170-X
- Yronwode, Catherine and Robbins, Trina. Women and the Comics (Eclipse, 1983) ISBN 0-913035-01-7