This is a list of women and girls 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
Congo Fifi Mukuna
Egypt Amaal Khattab Deena Mohamed Bahiga Thomassian, aka Bhiga
Gabon Sophie Endamne
Ivory Coast Marguerite Abouet – writer of Aya of Yop City
Madagascar Jenny M'Aa – makes comics with her husband Xhi
Morocco Riham El-Hour Cartoonist who became professional after winning a UNESCO competition in 2000
Mauritius Annick Sadonnet, aka Sadon, Ajol or Sade
South Africa Marieke Blomerus Karen Botha Marisa Cloete – Gebuza, To Dig a Big Hole Lara-Ann Jibrail Mariette Kemp Sian Kuiken Ingrid van der Merwe Ina van Zyl
Tanzania Martha Gellege – Anti Bwalo
Americas
Argentina Maitena Burundarena – Superadas Gisela Dester Sabrina Florio Isol Daniela Kantor María Delia Lozupone Dolo Okęcki
Brazil Erica Awano – Holy Avenger Chantal – Juventude Priscila Farias Raquel Gompy Seung Joo-Kang – Disney comics Ana-Luiza Koehler – Awrah Adriana Melo – notable for her work on the Star Wars: Empire franchise Bianca Pinheiro Germana Viana
Canada Isabelle Arsenault Kate Beaton Sandra Bell-Lundy – Between Friends Sheree Bradford-Lea Emily Carroll Svetlana Chmakova – Dramacon (Tokyopop) Julie Delporte Susan Dewar Julie Doucet Leanne Franson Odette Fumet – newspaper comic strip adaptations of swashbuckler novels, died at age 94 Pia Guerra – artist, Vertigo's Y The Last Man Lynn Johnston – For Better or For Worse Molly Kiely Sophie Labelle Michèle Laframboise Gisèle Lagacé – Cool Cat Studio, Penny and Aggie, Ménage à 3 Yvette Lapointe – Les Petits Espiègles Kate Leth – writer, Bravest Warriors (Boom! Comics), Edward Scissorhands (IDW), Adventure Time (Boom! Comics) Sam Maggs – Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, Rick & Morty Ever After, Transformers, My Little Pony Maia Matches (born in Canada, later moved to the Netherlands) Caroline Merola Diane Obomsawin – Kaspar, On Loving Women Rina Piccolo – Six Chix, Tina's Groove Doris Slater Fiona Staples – Saga Jillian Tamaki – Skim and This One Summer Olga Urbansky – Sergeant Renfrew, based on the comedy character by Dave Broadfoot Chrissie Zullo Zviane
Chile Elena Poirier
Mexico Cecilia Pego Yolanda Vargas Dulché
United States
Platinum Age (1897–1937) Nell Brinkley – The Brinkley Girl Mildred Burleigh – Pigtails Dot Cochran – Dot and Dodo, Me and My Boyfriend Fanny Cory – Other People's Children, Sonny Sayings, Little Miss Muffet Grace G. Drayton – Dolly Drake and Bobby Blake in Storyland, The Terrible Tales of Captain Kiddo, Toodles, Dolly Dimples, The Campbell Kids, The Pussycat Princess Edwina Dumm – Cap Stubbs and Tippie Lovrien Gregory – The Pioneers Carol Hager – continued The Adventures of Waddles Ethel Hays – Ethel, Flapper Fanny Says, Marianne, Vic and Ethel Margaret G. Hays – Jennie and Jack, Also The Little Dog Jap Mary A. Hays – Kate and Karol, the Cranford Kids Louise Hirsch – Tessie Tish, Charlie Chirps Virginia Huget – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Flora's Fling, Campus Capers, Miss Aladdin, Molly the Manicure Girl, continued Skippy and Oh Diana Fay King – 1910s–1930s cartoons and early autobiographical comics Rose O'Neill – Kewpie Marjorie Organ – Reggie and the Heavenly Twins, Strange What a Difference a Mere Man Makes, The Wrangle Sisters Louise Quarles – Bun's Puns Katharine P. Rice – Flora Flirt Inez Townsend (born in the U.K., later moved to the U.S.) – Gretchen Gratz, Snooks and Snicks, the Mischievous Twins Dorothy Urfer – Annibelle
Golden Age/Silver Age (1930s c . 1970) Nina Albright – artist for comics packager Bernard Baily Studio Rosie Arima – Chig, Li'l Eva-Cue Ruth Atkinson, aka Ruth Atkinson Ford, R. Atkinson – worked for Fiction House, Timely Comics, Lev Gleason Publications Violet Barclay – worked as an inker for Timely/Atlas Comics Toni Blum – writer for Eisner & Iger Ann Brewster Hannah Carter – continued her husband, Ad Carter's series Just Kids as Mush Stebbins and his Sister Fanny Cory – Little Miss Muffet Jill Elgin – continued Girl Commandos Linda Fite – writer for The Cat, Marvel Comics Ramona Fradon – worked on Aquaman and Metamorpho, DC Comics; drew Brenda Starr, Reporter Barbara Hall – drew for Black Cat, Girl Commandos, the Blonde Bomber Ray HermanSometimes spelled "Rae Herman", though artist Mort Leav was cited in Alter Ego #60 (July 2006), p. 54, as recalling her first name spelled "Ray". – 1940s editor at Holyoke Publishing and elsewhereAlter 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 Patricia Highsmith – worked for Nedor/Standard/Better Comics and others Virginia Hubbell – Charles Biro's ghost writer, Lev Gleason Publications' Crime Does Not PayHajdu, David. The Ten-Cent Plague – The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America, page 5. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. ; . Joye Hummel – wrote several scripts of Wonder Woman when the original script writer, William Moulton Marston, was too ill to continue on his own Alice Kirkpatrick Virginia Krausmann – continued Annibelle and Marianne Alice Marble – associate editor on Wonder Woman 1941–1945, creator/writer of Wonder Women of History feature 1942–1946 Lee Marrs – worked for Star Reach Elizabeth Holloway Marston – co-creator of Wonder Woman Tarpe Mills, pseudonym of June Mills – Cat-Man (Holyoke Comics), Miss Fury Jackie Ormes – Torchy Brown, Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger Ramone Patenaude, aka Pat Albertine Randall – The Dumbunnies Lily Renée, aka Reney (Lily Renée Wilhelms Peters and Lily Renée Phlllips) – worked for Fiction House and St. John Publications Ruth Roche – writer of Phantom Lady (Fox Comics) Helene Rother – Jimmy Jupiter Marie Severin – worked for EC and Marvel Comics Barbara Shermund Virginia Smith – co-creator of The Smith Family Marcia Snyder – worked for Fiction House Daisy Swayze – lettered for Fawcett Comics, sister of artist Marc Swayze"We Didn't Know it was the Golden Age" (column), by Marc Swayze: Alter Ego #5 (Summer 2000), pp. 40-41 Esther Takei – Ama-Chan Mercy Van Vlack – Miranda the Tease, Green Ghost and Lotus Linda Walter – Susie Q. Smith and as illustrator for Bunty Tatjana Wood – colorist Dorothy Woolfolk, aka Dorothy Roubicek – DC Comics' first woman editor
Bronze Age and Modern Age Laura Allred – colorist Sana Amanat – editor, Ms. Marvel (Marvel) Sarah Andersen – Sarah's Scribbles; co-creator of Cheshire Crossing Fiona Avery Samm Barnes – Marvel Comics writer Amber Benson – writer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse Comics Karen Berger – editor, DC Comics' Vertigo imprint Christina Blanch – writer, editor, Good Boy, Mysterium, The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood Maddie Blaustein – writer, Milestone Comics' Hardware June Brigman – co-creator of Power Pack (Marvel Comics); final artist Brenda Starr, Reporter Madeline Brogan Sarah Byam – writer, Black Canary (DC Comics), Mode Extreme (Marvel/Razorline Bobbie Chase – Marvel Comics editor Roz Chast – New Yorker staff cartoonist The Party After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995–2003 Jo Chen – cover artist, Dark Horse Comics's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Joyce Chin – Wynonna Earp Becky Cloonan Nancy A. Collins – writer, DC/Vertigo's Swamp Thing Amanda Conner – The Pro (Image Comics), Disney's Gargoyles (Marvel Comics) Colleen Coover Barbara Dale – The Stanley Family Rosario Dawson – Occult Crimes Taskforce Image Comics Kelly Sue DeConnick – Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble (Marvel) Tania del Rio – Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Archie Comics) Rachel Dodson – inker, Marvel and DC Colleen Doran – A Distant Soil Valerie D'Orazio – assistant editor, DC Comics Leigh Dragoon – By the Wayside Jo Duffy, aka Mary Jo Duffy – writer and Marvel Comics editor Georgia Dunn – Breaking Cat News Jan Duursema – Star Wars: Legacy Mary Fleener – Slutburger Kaja Foglio – Girl Genius Robin Furth – The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born 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 StudiosCredits page, I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space #1 (May 2008), Platinum Studios Stephanie Gladden Devin Grayson – writer, Arsenal, Batman: Gotham Knights, Catwoman, Nightwing (all DC Comics) Pia Guerra – Y The Last Man Stephanie Hans – DIE (Image ComicsImage Comics), cover artist (Marvel,Marvel DC,DC Dark Horse,Dark Horse BOOM)) Jody Houser – writer, Faith (Valiant Comics), Mother Panic (Young Animal), Supergirl (DC Comics), Vox Machina Origins (Dark Horse) Judith Hunt – Evangeline (Comico) Jenna Jameson – Shadow Hunter Avy Jetter – Nuthin' Good Ever Happens at 4 a.m. Jenette Kahn – editor and executive, DC Comics Carol Kalish – executive, Marvel Comics Shawn Kerri – Cracked, CARtoons Magazine Barbara Kesel, aka Barbara Randall Kesel – writer, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales (IDW Publishing) Irene Koh – artist of The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, creator of Afrina and the Glass Coffin 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) Nilah Magruder 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 – Ms. Marvel Denise Mina – writer, Vertigo's Hellblazer Leah Moore – writer, Wildstorm's Albion Mindy Newell – writer/editor, Marvel, DC, and First) Ann Nocenti – writer, Daredevil Sonia Oback – colorist, Uncanny X-Men, X-23: Target X Nnedi Okorafor - Black Panther, Shuri (character), Wakanda Forever Glynis Oliver – colorist, X-Men Nina Paley – Fluff, The Hots, Nina's Adventures, Mimi & Eunice Sara Pichelli – 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 Antonia Pinnola, aka Acerotiburon – Waffley Wedded Janice Race – editor, DC Comics Barb Rausch Amy Reeder – Rocket Girl Emma Rios – Pretty Deadly Trina Robbins – It Ain't Me, Babe, Wimmen's Comix, Rosie the Riveter Sara Ryan – writer, Me and Edith Head Diana Schutz – editor, Dark Horse Comics Erica Schultz – writer, Daredevil Annual 2018, Revenge: The Secret Origin of Emily Thorne (Marvel Comics) Nicola Scott – Birds of Prey Cara Sherman Tereno Gail Simone – writer, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman Louise Simonson, aka Louise Jones – Power Pack Mary Skrenes – Omega the Unknown (Marvel Comics) Barbara Slate Roxanne Starr – letterer Margaret Stohl – writer Mighty Captain Marvel, Life of Captain Marvel, Spider-Man Noir Christina Strain – colorist, Runaways and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane Lilah Sturges – writer, Jack of Fables, Everafter, House of Mystery Laurie S. Sutton – writer and editor, DC Comics and Marvel Comics Babs Tarr – worked on Batgirl Cara Sherman Tereno – Arion, Lord of Atlantis, Life With The Vampire Jill Thompson – worked on Wonder Woman, Sandman, and her own Scary Godmother series Kelly Thompson – writer, Hawkeye, Jessica Jones, Captain Marvel, Rogue & Gambit, Mr. & Mrs. X, Black Widow, West Coast Avengers Maggie Thompson – editor, Comics Buyer's Guide magazine Kathleen Webb – writer, Betty Christina Weir – writer, Oni Press) Signe Wilkinson – Family Tree 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)