List of female comics creators

This is a list of women who have been involved with producing comic books and comic strips. Many notable female comics creators exist even 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

Adriana Melo, notable for her work on the Star Wars: Empire franchise
Erica Awano, mangaka
Laerte, O Tamanho da Coisa

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
Sophie Labelle
Kate Leth: writer, Bravest Warriors (Boom! Comics), Edward Scissorhands (IDW), Adventure Time (Boom! Comics)
Fiona Staples: artist, "Saga"
Jillian Tamaki: graphic novels Skim and This One Summer
Zviane

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
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)^{[citation needed]}
Roxanne Starr: Letterer
Christina Strain: Colorist, Runaways and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (all Marvel Comics)
Laurie S. Sutton: writer and editor, DC Comics and 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, Eisner Award winner for I Love Led Zeppelin
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: Ernie Pook's Comeek; The Greatest of Marlys; 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: Ignatz Award-winning Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life'

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: Hollow Fields

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.
^ ^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 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.