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 though the field of comics creation is traditionally male-dominated.

American comics

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
• 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
• Pearl Bartruff, Washington State 1920s

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

• Nina Albright :  Artist for comics packager Bernard Baily Studio
• 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)
• Barbara Hall, Harvey
• Ray Herman:   1940s editor at Holyoke Publishing and elsewhere.
• Patricia Highsmith; Nedor/Standard/Better Comics and others
• Virginia Hubbell:  Charles Biro's ghost writer, Lev Gleason Publications' Crime Does Not Pay
• Lee Marrs:  Artist-writer for Star Reach, elsewhere (1970s)
• 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
• Janice Valleau:   Quality Comics artist
• 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
• Fiona Avery
• Samm Barnes: Marvel Comics writer
• Anina Bennett: Writer, editor at First Comics and Dark Horse Comics. Co-creator of Heartbreakers
• 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)
• 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)
• Roz Chast : New Yorker staff cartoonist The Party After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995-2003
• Meloney Crawford Chadwick:  Harris Comics editor
• Bobbie Chase:  Marvel Comics editor
• 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
• Rosario Dawson: Writer and co-creator, Occult Crimes Taskforce Image Comics
• Renae De Liz, Artist, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales (IDW Publishing)
• Tania del Rio: Artist/Writer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Archie Comics)
• Kristen Fitzner Denton: Colorist Scratch9, Editor Komikwerks
• 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)
• 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)
• Eva Hopkins: Writer, colorist and co-creator, Dark Ivory (Image Comics)
• Heidi Hughes: Writer, The Voyages of The SheBuccaneer (Great Big Comics)
• Judith Hunt: Co-writer,co-creator, artist Evangeline (Comico Comics)1984 and online comic Evangeline (August 2008)
• Lora Innes: Writer, artist and creator, The Dreamer (IDW Publishing)
• 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
• Barbara Kesel a.k.a. Barbara Randall Kesel: Writer, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales (IDW Publishing)
• Sheila Keenan: Executive Editor, Scholastic Graphix
• 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)
• Marjorie Liu: Writer, X-23, Black Widow, Dark Wolverine, NYX, Astonishing X-Men (Marvel Comics)
• Linda Ly: Writer, Grimm Fairy Tales (Zenescope Entertainment)
• 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)
• Denise Mina: Writer, Vertigo's Hellblazer
• Mary Mitchell: Artist, Batman: Gotham Knights (DC Comics)
• Leah Moore: Writer, Wildstorm's Albion
• Melanie J. Morgan: Writer, Betty and Veronica, Jughead (Archie Comics)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Kristen Simon: Editor in Chief, Shadowline Comics (Jim Valentino's imprint at Image Comics)
• 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)
• Barbara Slate: Writer, Betty (Archie Comics)
• Beth Sotelo: Colorist, Soul Fire: Dying of the Light (Aspen MLT), Atomika (Mercury Comics)
• Roxanne Starr: Letterer
• 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)
• Teri S. Wood: Artist and writer, Wandering Star (Sirius)
• Darlene Culkin: Artist and writer, Ankle Biter, Dark Enough Without Me, Earth Will Be Mine, Reclaim My Place
• 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)

• Kelly Sue DeConnick: Writer, Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble (Marvel Comics)
• Sara Pichelli: Artist, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Comics)
• Kathryn Immonen: Writer, Journey into Mystery, Runaways (Marvel Comics)

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)
• Becky Cloonan: Artist, AiT/Planet Lar's Demo
• Jinky Coronado a.k.a. Meryl "Jinky" Coronado Calanog Campiti: Artist/Writer, Banzai Girl (Arcana Studio)
• Alex de Campi: Writer, Kat & Mouse (Tokyopop)
• Melissa DeJesus: Artist, Sokora Refugees (Tokyopop), daily comic strip My Cage
• 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)
• 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
• Gisèle Lagacé: Webcomicker
• Nina Matsumoto: Artist/Writer, "Yōkaiden" (Del Rey Manga)
• María Victoria Robado: Webcomicker
• Amy Reeder: Artist/Writer, Fool's Gold (Tokyopop)
• Rivkah: Artist/Writer, Steady Beat (Tokyopop)
• Cassandra Wedeking: Webcomicker

Alternative comics

• Carmen Aquino : Writer-artist, "Shaya" "HARLEM" "I Love Alien!"
• Jessica Abel:  Writer-artist, La Perdida (Fantagraphics)
• Lady Attercop:  Creator Strange Fiction
• 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
• Ruji Chapnik: Writer/artist, Don Depresso
• Shannon Chenoweth: Creator/Writer The Line (Misfit Comics)
• Chynna Clugston: Creator, Oni Press's Blue Monday
• Colleen Coover:  Creator Small Favors
• Danielle Corsetto:  Creator Girls With Slingshots
• 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)
• Jennifer Daydreamer: Creator, Jennifer Daydreamer
• 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)
• Tatiana Gill: Creator, Living in the Now webcomic; artist Pictures of You; artist, A Strange Day
• 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
• Jackie Lewis: Artist, Oni Press's Play Ball
• Vanesa Littlecrow: Creator, Nine Lives of Catnose
• MariNaomi: Writer/artist, Kiss & Tell
• Carla Speed McNeil: Writer/artist, Finder
• Erika Moen: Writer/artist, DAR!; artist, Bucko (Dark Horse Comics)
• 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)
• 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
• Sara Varon: Writer/artist, Sweaterweather (Alternative Comics)
• 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
• Ursula Murray Husted : Writer-artist, "The Lions of Valletta", "Making Rain", "Drawing on Yourself"

American comic strips

• Lynda Barry:  The New Yorker
• Sandra Bell-Lundy:  Creator Between Friends
• Marjorie Henderson Buell under pseudonym "Marge": Little Lulu
• Teresa Burritt:  Creator Frog Applause
• Mabel Burvick under pseudonym "Odin" a.k.a. Odin Burvik: Dickie Dare (for a time beginning 1944; previously as assistant to husband Coulton Waugh.)
• 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)
• Grace Dayton:  Toodles; Dolly Dimples; The Pussycat Princess
• Edwina Dumm under pseudonym "Edwina": The Meanderings of Minnie; Cap Stubbs and Tippie
• Jan Eliot:  Creator Stone Soup
• Mary Gauerke:  The Alumnae
• Cathy Guisewite:  Creator Cathy
• Alex Hallatt:  Creator Arctic Circle
• Bunny Hoest: Writer The Lockhorns (1971-)
• Nicole Hollander: Creator Sylvia
• Virginia Huget:  Campus Capers
• 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

Japanese manga

• Akira Amano: Creator of Reborn!
• Kozue Amano: Creator of Aria
• Yuki Amemiya: Creator of 07-Ghost together with Yukino Ichihara
• Yasuko Aoike
• Kotomi Aoki: Creator of Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru, Kanojo wa Uso o Aishisugiteru
• Ume Aoki: Creator of Hidamari Sketch
• Kiyoko Arai: Creator: Angel Lip, Ask Dr. Rin!
• Hiromu Arakawa: Creator/artist/writer Fullmetal Alchemist
• Sakura Asagi
• Hinako Ashihara: Creator of Sand Chronicles, Forbidden Dance, Piece - Kanojo no Kioku
• Izumi Aso
• Yuki Azuma: Creator of Schoolmate
• Ippongi Bang
• Nanae Chrono: Creator of Peacemaker Kurogane, Senki Senki Momotama, Vassalord
• Clamp: Creators RG Veda, Magic Knight Rayearth, Cardcaptor Sakura, Angelic Layer, Chobits, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic
  • Eiki Eiki: Creator of Dear Myself, Train Train, Color
• Nariko Enomoto
• Mihona Fujii: Creator of Gals!
• Kazuko Fujita: Creator of Makoto Call!, Four Steps to Romance
• Cocoa Fujiwara: Creator of dear, Inu x Boku SS
• Hiro Fujiwara: Creator of Kaichō wa Maid-sama!
• Moto Hagio
• Nanae Haruno
• Bisco Hatori
• Kyō Hatsuki (葉月京) : Creator of Love Junkies, Inu-Neko
• Aloha Higa: Creator of Shirokuma Cafe
• Akiko Higashimura: Creator Kisekae Yuka-chan, Himawari - Kenichi Legend, Mama ha Temparish
• Asa Higuchi: Creator of Big Windup!
• Tachibana Higuchi: Creator of Portrait of M and N, Gakuen Alice
• Matsuri Hino: Creator: Vampire Knight
• Katsura Hoshino: Creator of D.Gray-man
• Yumi Hotta: Writer of Hikaru no Go
• Yukari Ichijo
• Yumiko Igarashi
• Riyoko Ikeda: Creator of The Rose of Versailles
• Gō Ikeyamada: Creator of Uwasa no Midori-kun!!, Suki Desu Suzuki-kun!!, Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!
• Ryo Ikuemi: Creator of Bara-Iro no Ashita, Kiyoku Yawaku
• Sukune Inugami: Creator of Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, Renai Distortion, Ashita mo Kotokoto
• Risa Itō: Creator of Oi Pītan!!, Oruchuban Ebichu
• Natsumi Itsuki
• Mariko Iwadate
• Kaneyoshi Izumi: Creator: Sonnanja neyo
• Rei Izumi: Illustrator of Hibiki's Magic, .hack//Legend of the Twilight
• Yuna Kagesaki: Creator of Chibi Vampire
• Narumi Kakinouchi: Illustrator of Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo, Vampire Princess Miyu
• Yoko Kamio: Creator of Boys Over Flowers, Cat Street
• Aya Kanno; Creator of Soul Rescue, Blank Slate, Otomen
• Junko Karube
• Kazue Kato: Creator of Blue Exorcist
• Yumiko Kawahara
• Mizuki Kawashita: Creator of Strawberry 100%, First Love Limited, Anedoki
• Toshie Kihara
• Miyuki Kobayashi
• Momoko Kōda: Creator of Heroine Shikkaku
• 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
• Kanan Minami: Creator of Kyō
• Kazuka Minami: Creator of My Paranoid Next Door Neighbor
• Kazuya Minekura: Creator of Saiyuki, Wild Adapter, Saiyuki Ibun, Saiyuki Reload Blast
• 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
• Setona Mizushiro: Creator of X-Day, After School Nightmare
• Milk Morinaga: Creator of Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo, Girl Friends
• Milk Morizono
• Maki Murakami
• Mayumi Muroyama
• Aya Nakahara: Creator of Love Com
• Hisaya Nakajo: Creator of Hana-Kimi, Sugar Princess
• Hikaru Nakamura: Creator of Arakawa Under the Bridge, Saint Young Men
• Junko Nakano (中野純子): Creator of B-Shock!, Chisa × Pon, Hetakoi
• Kiriko Nananan: Creator of blue, strawberry shortcakes
• Minako Narita: Creator of Cipher, Alexandrite, Hana Yori mo Hana no Gotoku
• Tomoko Ninomiya: Creator of Nodame Cantabile
• 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?
• Shinobu Ohtaka: Creator of Sumomomo Momomo, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
• Reiko Okano: Creator of Fancy Dance
• Hiromu Ono: Creator Lady Love
• Yumiko Ōshima: Creator of The Star of Cottonland
• Minami Ozaki
• Mari Ozawa
• Peach-Pit
• Marimo Ragawa: Creator Baby and Me
• Akizuki Risu
• Rieko Saibara: Creator of Bokunchi, Mainichi Kaasan, Onnanoko Monogatari, Jōkyō Monogatari
• Fumi Saimon
• Mayu Sakai: Creator of Rockin' Heaven
• Io Sakisaka: Creator of Strobe Edge
• Momoko Sakura: Creator Chibi Maruko-chan
• Koharu Sakuraba: Creator of Kyō no Go no Ni, Minami-ke
• Kanoko Sakurakoji: Creator of Backstage Prince, Black Bird
• Erica Sakurazawa
• Kei Sasuga (流石景): Creator of GE - Good Ending
• Machiko Satonaka
• Karuho Shiina: Creator of Kimi ni Todoke
• Reiko Shimizu
• Takako Shimura: Creator of Aoi Hana, Wandering Son
• Chie Shinohara: Creator of Ao no Fūin, Romance of Darkness, Red River, Purple Eyes in the Dark
• Mayu Shinjo: Creator of Sensual Phrase, Akuma na Eros, Haou Airen, Love Celeb, Ai Ore!
• Yuki Suetsugu: Creator of Chihayafuru
• Fuyumi Soryo
• Keiko Suenobu: Creator of Life, Limit
• Hinako Sugiura
• Hiro Suzuhira: Illustrator of Ginban Kaleidoscope
• Julietta Suzuki
• Haruko Tachiiri
• Megumi Tachikawa
• Kaoru Tada
• Rumiko Takahashi: Creator Urusei Yatsura, Ranma ½, InuYasha
• Hinako Takanaga: Creator of Challengers, Little Butterfly, Liberty Liberty!, The Tyrant Falls in Love
• Natsuki Takaya
• Naoko Takeuchi: Creator Sailor Moon
• Keiko Tobe: Creator of With the Light
• Yana Toboso: Creator of Black Butler
• Asami Tojo (東城麻美): Creator of Chimera, X-Kai, Thunderbolt Boys Excite, Love Prism, Only You
• Rei Toma: Creator of Dawn of the Arcana
• Yumi Tamura: Creator of Basara, Chicago, 7 Seeds
• Yellow Tanabe: Creator of Kekkaishi
• Arina Tanemura; Creator of Full Moon o Sagashite, Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura
• Ema Tōyama: Creator Pixie Pop, Koko ni iru yo!
• Mikiyo Tsuda: Creator of The Day of Revolution, Family Complex, Princess Princess
• 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, Absolute Boyfriend
• Murasaki Yamada
• Ryoko Yamagishi
• Ebine Yamaji
• Sumika Yamamoto
• Kazumi Yamashita: Creator of The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa
• Waki Yamato
• Mari Yamazaki: Creator of Thermae Romae
• Ai Yazawa
• Akimi Yoshida
• Miki Yoshikawa: Creator of Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
• 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
• Sumomo Yumeka

Others

• Ana Miralles: Djinn (Spain)
• Bianca Pinheiro (Brazil)
• Chiquinha (Brazil)
• Claire Bretécher (France)
• Colonel Moutarde (France)
• Françoise Pichard (France)
• Julia Bax (Brazil)
• Lee So-young (South Korea)
• Madeleine Rosca (Australia)
• Maitena Burundarena: Superadas (Argentina)
• Posy Simmonds Writer/Artist of Tamara Drewe (England)
• Samanta Flôor (Brazil)
• Titane Laurent: God's Stuff (New Zealand)
• Tove Jansson (Finland)
• Xiao Bai (China): Creator of Si loin et si proche
• Sabela Arias Castro: Creator or Historias de Icía e Avoa (Spain)

See also

• Friends of Lulu
• List of 20th century women artists
• Women artists
• Portrayal of women in comics

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 on November 25, 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/5lYfMEWJg. 

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

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