List of female comics creators

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
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, Edward Scissorhands, Adventure Time
Sam Maggs – Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, Rick & Morty Ever After, Transformers, My Little Pony
Maia Matches
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 – Gretchen Gratz, Snooks and Snicks, the Mischievous Twins
Dorothy Urfer – ''Annibelle''

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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 Herman – 1940s editor at Holyoke Publishing and elsewhere
Patricia Highsmith – worked for Nedor/Standard/Better Comics and others
Virginia Hubbell – Charles Biro's ghost writer, Lev Gleason Publications' Crime Does Not Pay
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, Miss Fury
Jackie Ormes – Torchy Brown, Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger
Ramone Patenaude, aka Pat
Albertine Randall – The Dumbunnies
Lily Renée, aka Reney – worked for Fiction House and St. John Publications
Ruth Roche – writer of Phantom Lady
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
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

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Laura Allred – colorist
Sana Amanat – editor, Ms. 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 ; final artist Brenda Starr, Reporter
Madeline Brogan
Sarah Byam – writer, Black Canary, Mode Extreme, Disney's Gargoyles
Colleen Coover
Barbara Dale – The Stanley Family
Rosario Dawson – Occult Crimes Taskforce Image Comics
Kelly Sue DeConnick – Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble
Tania del Rio – Sabrina the Teenage Witch
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
Pia Guerra – Y The Last Man
Stephanie Hans – DIE, cover artist )
Jody Houser – writer, Faith, Mother Panic, Supergirl, Vox Machina Origins
Judith Hunt – Evangeline
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
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, Saint Sinner
Marjorie Liu – writer, X-23, Black Widow, Dark Wolverine, NYX, Astonishing X-Men
Nilah Magruder
Cynthia Martin – artist for Marvel Comics's Star Wars
Laura Martin – colorist, Planetary, Astonishing X-Men, Ruse
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
Jodi Picoult – writer, DC's Wonder Woman
Tamora Pierce – writer, Marvel Comics' White Tiger
Wendy Pini – artist and co-creator, Elfquest, 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
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
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, Ms. Marvel
Kim Yale – writer/editor, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, First Comics, and Warp Graphics

OEL manga

Tina Anderson – writer, Only Words, Games With Me, Loud Snow
Jo Chen – artist, Digital Manga's In These Words
Becky Cloonan – artist, AiT/Planet Lar's Demo
Mary Cagle – artist/writer, Sleepless Domain
Alex de Campi – writer, Kat & Mouse
Amy Kim Ganter – artist/writer, Sorcerers & Secretaries
Holly Golightly, aka Holly G!, Fauve – artist/writer, School Bites
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"
Amy Reeder – artist/writer, Fool's Gold
Rivkah – artist/writer, ''Steady Beat''

Alternative comics

Jessica Abel – La Perdida
Donna Barr – Stinz, The Desert Peach
Alison Bechdel – Dykes to Watch Out For
Gabrielle Bell – Lucky
Lucy Bellwood – 100 Demon Dialogues, Baggywrinkles
Lee Binswanger
Angela Bocage – Nice Girls Don't Talk About Sex, Religion and Politics
Joyce Brabner – Our Cancer Year
Paige Braddock – Jane's World
Vera Brosgol
M.K. Brown – Aunt Mary's Kitchen, Dr. N!Godatu
Dot Bucher
Nancy Burton, also known as Nancy Kalish or Hurricane Nancy – Gentle's Tripout, contributed to It Ain't Me, Babe
Sophie Campbell – Too Much Hopeless Savages, Spooked
Jennifer Camper
Carole – published in Breakin' Out in It Ain't Me, Babe
Geneviève Castrée
Chynna Clugston – Blue Monday
Colleen Coover – Small Favors
Molly Crabapple – Scarlett Takes Mahattan, Backstage at Act-i-vate
Sophie Crumb – Belly Button
Dame Darcy – Meat Cake
Vanessa Davis – Spaniel Rage, Make Me a Woman
Abby Denson – Tough Love: High School Confidential
Diane DiMassa – Hothead Paisan – Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
Colleen Doran – A Distant Soil
Julie Doucet – Dirty Plotte
Debbie Dreschler
Sarah Dyer
Joyce Farmer – Tits & Clits Comix
Karen Favreau – creator, So It Goes...
Emil Ferris
Jess Fink – creator, Chester 5000 XYV
Ali Fitzgerald – Drawn to Berlin
Mary Fleener – Fleener, Something New
Aline Kominsky-Crumb – The Bunch, Dirty Laundry Comix
Krystine Kryttre
Hope Larson – Gray Horses and Salamander Dream
Carol Lay – Story Minute, Way Lay
Amara Leipzig
Caryn Leschen – Ask Aunt Violet
Marisa Acocella Marchetto – Cancer Vixen
Carla Speed McNeil – Finder
Linda Medley
Erika Moen – DAR!; artist, Bucko, Oh Joy Sex Toy
Diane Noomin – DiDi Glitz
Christine Norrie – Hopeless Savages
Mimi Pond - Mimi's Page, Famous Waitress School, Over Easy, The Customer Is Always Wrong
Liz Prince – Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed
Trina Robbins – Ms. Tree
Vanessa Satone – Wasted Minds
Mari Schaal – Estrus
Gail Schlesser
Ariel Schrag – Awkward
Dori Seda
Tara Seibel – co-creator/artist/writer, Rock City Terminally Ill
Christine Shields
Carole Sobocinski
Raina Telgemeier – Smile
Carol Tyler – The Job Thing
Serena Valentino – Gloomcookie, Slave Labor Graphics
Sara Varon
Lauren Weinstein – The Goddess of War
Julia Wertz – Fart Party, Drinking at the Movies
Kate Worley – Omaha the Cat Dancer
Catherine Yronwode – editor-in-chief of Eclipse Comics

Comic strips

Margaret Ahern Beano and continued Speck the Altar Boy; under the name "Margarita", Little Reggie; under the name "Peg O'Connell", Our Parish
Isabella Bannerman – Six Chix
Lynda Barry – Ernie Pook's Comeek
Sandra Bell-Lundy – Between Friends
Barbara Brandon-Croft – Where I'm Coming From
Marjorie Henderson Buell – Little Lulu
Kate Carew – Handy Andy, The Angel Child
Carol Carlson – The Adventures of Waddles
Nellie Caroll – Lady Chatter
Natalie d'Arbeloff – Augustine, Blaugustine
Melissa DeJesus – My Cage
Edwina Dumm – The Meanderings of Minnie; Cap Stubbs and Tippie
Jan Eliot – Stone Soup
Emily Flake – Lulu Eightball
Allison Garwood – moo
Anne Gibbons – Eve 'n Steven, continued Six Chix
Jan Green – Hey Swingy!
Cathy Guisewite – Cathy
Alex Hallatt – Arctic Circle
Marion Hull Hammel – continued Goofus and Gallant
Leslie Harrington – continued Goofus and Gallant
Marian Henley – Maxine, The Little Bald Headed Girl
Bunny Hoest – writer The Lockhorns
Nicole Hollander – Sylvia
Judith Hunt – Evangeline, The Timbertoes
Olivia Jaimes – current author of Nancy
Kelley Jarvis – continued comics starring Tom & Jerry, Mighty Mouse
Lynn Johnston – For Better or For Worse
Carolyn Kelly – worked on Pogo
Selby Kelly – worked on Pogo
Terri Libenson – The Pajama Diaries
Marty Links – Emmy Lou
Karen Matchette – worked on Dennis the Menace, The Flintstones comics and assisted on For Better or For Worse
Anni Matsick – continued Goofus and Gallant
Linda Medley
Dale Messick – Brenda Starr, Reporter
Karen Montague-Reyes – Clear Blue Water
Gladys Parker – Mopsy
Stephanie Piro – Fair Game, Six Chix
Mary Schmich – final writer of Brenda Starr, Reporter
Margaret Shulock – Apartment 3-G, Six Chix
Elena Steier – The Ramp Rats, The Goth Scouts, The Vampire Bed and Breakfast
Hilda Terry – Teena
Carla Ventresca – On A Claire Day, continued Six Chix
Maurieta Wellman – ''Goofus and Gallant''

Indie comics

Toshi J – Admani, The Grey
Karla Medrano – ''Luna: The Queen of Mahru''

Uruguay

Raquel Orzuj

Asia

Bahrain

Sara Qaed – political cartoonist

China

India

Shreyas Krishnan
Parismita Singh

Iran

Atena Farghadani
Marjane Satrapi – ''Persepolis''

Israel

Mira Friedmann
Batia Kolton
Rutu Modan
Elisheva Nadal

Malaysia

Sandra Khoo – ''Claude and Chunkie''

Mongolia

Zolzaya Batkhuyag

South Korea

Iwan – Jiburo Ganeungil, Jumping
Kang Kyung-ok
Kwon Gyo-jung
Kwon Yoon-joo – Snowcat
Lee Jung-Hyoun
Lee So-young
You

Taiwan

Belle Yang – Hannah Is My Name, ''Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale''

Europe

Austria

Dora Dimow
Marianne Frimberger – Die Fünf Negerlein
Ulli Lust – Ignatz Award-winning Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Hella Schiefer
Else Weichberger
Susi Weigel
Susanne Wenger

Belgium

Rosita Cappaert – Cleef Combe, scriptwriter of De Ever en de Roos
Eva Cardon, aka Ephameron – Us Two, Together
Nathalie Carpentier
Chayé
May Claerhout – made comics for the magazine Ohee
Veerle Colle – Colle, graphic novel based on the film Ben X
Antoinette Collin – Les Naufragés de l'Escalator, Christobald
Nine Culliford – wife of Peyo, who colorized his comics
Carine De Brab
Elfje De Rooster – Remi de Onversaagde
Phaedra Derhore -
Blanche Dumoulin – made comics for Spirou and was the wife of Rob-Vel*Marianne Duvivier
Liliane Funcken – made comics for the magazine Tintin with her husband Fred
Dominique Gillain
Jeanne and Laure Hovine – Nic et Nac, notable for being the first Belgian female comics artists
Ilah – Cordelia
Nina Jacqmin – La Tristesse de l'Éléphant
Kari – advertising comics
Karo
Greet Liégeois – scripted Bessy and ghosted Silberpfeil
Viviane Nicaise
Erika Raven – Ripley, Thomas Rindt
Séraphine, aka Séraphine Claeys
Cécile Schmitz
Yasmine Stalpaert
Tonet Timmermans
Sylvia Tops – Team Lou
Ann Van de Velde, aka Carrie Anne – Ridder Geert
Leen van Hulst
Katrien Van Schuylenbergh – Oh Dierbaar Vlaanderen..., Merel
Judith Vanistendael – Dance By The Light of the Moon
Tine Vercruysse
Virginie Vertonghen – La Vavache
Gabrielle Vincent – Ernest & Célestine
You

Bosnia

Enisa Bravo
Helena Klakočar

Bulgaria

Elena Stoilova – ''Is Vasko Alive?''

Croatia

Ivana Armanini

Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic

Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová – Z Mého Dětství (From my Childhood
Lucie Lomová

Denmark

Birthe Aksby – Lillegut
Sussi Bech – Nofret
Christy Bentzon – Lone og lille Lasse
Lillian Brøgger – Fuglemanden
Sofie Louise Dam – Hviskeleg
Ida Gantriis – Frederik og Joachim
Tatiana Goldberg – Anima, Kijara
Carla Hansen – co-creator of Rasmus Klump
- Lone og Lille Lasse
Kirsten Hoffmann – Dorte og Clas
Line Høj Høstrup – Det rette element
Angelica Inigo – On/off
Ina Korneliussen – Små fisk, Æg
Ingerlise Kristoffersen – Pigen der ledte efter sin egen skygge
Sabine Lemire – Mira
Anne Mette Kærulf Lorenzen – Skamlebben
Tove Norgaard – continued Rasmus Klump
Gerda Nystad – Evas Hverdag
Kristina Ricken – Live fra Lolland
Stine Spedsberg – Stinestregen, Vox
Karoline Stjernfelt – I morgen bliver det bedre
Frederikke Tornager – Min nat med dig
Lisbeth Valgreen – Gaven, Arret
Ingrid Vang Nyman -
Rikke Villadsen – Et knald til
Gerda Wegener
Nikoline Werdelin – Café, Homo Metropolis
Henriette Westh – Dorthea
Pernille Ørum – ''Hit-Girl''

Finland

Mari Ahokoivu
Terhi Ekebom
Tove Jansson – The Moomins
Arja Kajermo – Dublin Four, Tuula
Ina Kallis
Kati Kovàcs
Kaisa Leka
Aino Louhi
Pauliina Mäkelä
Hanneriina Moisseinen
Nora Paakanen – Ted Dally
Tiina Paju
Milla Paloniemi – Kiroileva siilli, Tassutellen
Kaija Papu
Kati Rapia – Lonkka, Yellow Bird
Jenni Rope – Miss Simon Ginlemon
Anna Sailamaa – Paimen
Minna Sundberg – A Redtail's Dream and Stand Still. Stay Silent
Katri Supiläinen
Aino Sutinen
Tiitu Takalo
Katja Tukiainen
Riita Uusitalo
Amanda Vähämäki
Emmi Valve
Julia Vuori – ''Sika''

France

Marguerite Abouet – Aya of Yopougon
Peggy Adam – Luchadoras
Lucie Albon – Le Voeu de Marc
Algésiras
Amandine – Mistinguette
Aurélia Aurita
Pénélope Bagieu – My Quite Fascinating Life, Joséphine
Anne Baltus
Stéphanie Bellat – Princesse Libellule
Françoise Bertier – Line
Claire Bouilhac – Francis Blaireau Farceur
Marie-Madeleine Bourdin – Titounet et Titounette
Elsa Brants
Claire Bretécher – Les Frustrés
Lætitia Brochier
Camille Burger
Marie Caillou
Florence Cestac – Cestac pour les grands
Cécile Chicault
Nicole Claveloux
Daphné Collignon – Flora et les Étoiles Filantes
Chloé Cruchaudet
Mariel Dauphin – comics based on novels
Clio De Frégon – Charlie, Ma Vie de Star
Marie-Christine Demeure
Bernadette Després – Tom-Tom and Nana
Isabelle Dethan
Lucie Durbiano
Marie Duval – Ally Sloper
Nathalie Ferlut – Ether Glister
Kate J. Fricero – Les Distractions de Mll Nini
Geneviève Gautier – created the comic Les Aventures du Pingouin Alfred at age 95, making her the oldest person to ever debut as a comics artist
Hélène Georges
Annie Goetzinger – Félina, Aurore, La Demoiselle de la Légion d'honneur, Agence Hardy
Virginie Greiner – Secrets
Anne Guillard – Valentine, Ma Vie d'Ado, Les Pipelettes
Joly Guth
Loo Hui Phang
Manon Iessel – Capucine
Marie Jaffredo – Yuan: journal d'une adoption
Catherine Labey
Oriane Lassus – Spongiculture
Sandrine Lemoult
Samantha Leriche-Gionet – Boumeries
Patricia Lyfoung – La Rose Écarlate
Lisa Mandel
Jul Maroh – Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Catherine Meurisse – Elza
Laureline Michaut, aka Laurel – Le Journal de Carmilla, Cerise, Les Énigmes de Violette
Marion Montaigne – Tu Mourras Moins Bête
Chantal Montellier – 1996
Aurélien Morinière
Françoise Mouly
Colonel Moutarde
Catel Muller
Aurélie Neyret, aka Clo
Collette Pattinger
Françoise Pichard, aka Chard, Pscharr
Marie Pommepuy – half of the duo Keracoët
Sandrine Revel
Anouk Ricard
Rosalys
Annick Sadonnet, aka Sadon, Ajol or Sade
Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
Joëlle Savey
Johanna Schipper
Anne Simon – author of The Song of Aglaia
Maly Siri
Solveg – Betty
Audrey Spiry
Roxanne Starr
Irène Stegmann
Caroline Sury
Tanxxx
Annette Tison – Barbapapa
Vanyda
Valérie Vernay – Agathe Saugrenu
Chloé Wary
Claire Wendling

Germany

Franziska Bilek
Naomi Fearn – Zuckerfish
Aisha Franz
Kristina Gehrmann – Im Eisland
Dagmar Geisler
Cornelia Geppert – continued Abrafaxe
Edith Hegenbarth – worked on Digedags
Jule K
Kathi Kaeppel
Hyuna Kang
Nora Krug
Anke Kuhl
Marie Marcks
Edith Oppenheim-Jonas – Papa Moll
Marika Paul
Elizabeth Pich – War and Peas
Annegret Reimann
Lona Rietschel – Abrafaxe
Elke Steiner
Ulrike Uhlig
Irmtraut Winkler-Wittig – worked for Hannes Hegen
Barbara Yelin
Minou Zaribaf
Gisela Zimmermann

Greece

Alkmini Grammatopoulou
Zoe Skiadaresi – ''Bampoudas''

Hungary

Gabriella Baracsi
Miriam Katin
Lívia Rusz

Ireland

Elizabeth Shaw – ''Sonntagmorgen''

Italy

Mirka Andolfo
Bianca Bagnarelli
Laura Bozzano – Disney comics
Anna Brandoli – La Strega, Cuba 42
Lina Buffolente – Piccolo Ranger, Comandante Mark
Barbara Canepa – Disney comics
Giovanna Casotto
Barbara Ciardo
Adriana Cristina – Disney comics
Iris De Paoli
Anna Maria Falcetti – Looney Tunes comics, Disney comics, Bobo
Liliana Fantoni
Monica Ferrone – Xtina
Elena de' Grimani – Rigel)
Adriana Lobello
Paola Lombroso
Nives Manara -
Elisabetta Melaranci – Disney comics
Anna Merli – Disney comics
Gabriella Molisso
Grazia Nidasio – Valentina Mela Verde, Steffi
Sara Pichelli – Marvel Comics
Elisa Picuno – Disney comics
Antonella Platano
Valeria Turati – Geronimo Stilton, Bobo, Disney comics
Antonella Vicari
Vanna Vinci – La Bambina Filosofica
Luisa Zancanella – worked on Martin Mystère
Melissa Zanella
Rafaella Zardoni
Silvia Ziche – Disney comics
Laura Zuccheri – Hardware, Julia, worked on ''Ken Parker''

Latvia

Ingrida Picukane
Dace Sietina – ''Life Is A Bitch''

Luxemburg

Pascale Velleine – ''Jamie Bond''

Netherlands

Fieke Asscher – De Rare Belevenissen van Professor Stap-door-den-Tijd
Anne van Baarle – De Ware Geschiedenis van Aspoetser
Merel Barends
Marjolein Bastin
Nel van Beek – Dol en Mina
Agnes van Belle – Het zal wel
Irene Berbee – Ulfbehrt, worked on Jan, Jans en de Kinderen
Nelly Bodenheim
Wilma van den Bosch – Disney comics
Willeke Brouwer – Ongelooflijke Bijbelverhalen
Linda van Bruggen
Peti Buchel
B. Carrot – Alle Dagen Ui
Rie Cramer
Els Deckers, aka Vosje
Mies Deinum
Marissa Delbressine
Phiny Dick – Olle Kapoen, Birre Beer
Eveline van Dijk – made comics promoting trepanation, based on the theories of Bart Huges
Marianne Eigendaal – Het Kuurhuis
Linda van Erve
Henrieke Goorhuis – Het Lastpak
Dorith Graef – Nena's Vlog
Renske de Greef – Renske Stript
Sandra de Haan
Fritzi Harmsen van Beek – continued Flipje van Tiel
Maaike Hartjes – Maaike's Dagboek
Nelleke Haverhals – Roos
Margreet de Heer – Discoveries in Comics
Eva Hilhorst
Gerrie Hondius – Ansje Tweedehansje
Nova de Hoo -
Dilys de Jong – 5x30
Aimée de Jongh – Snippers
Patty Klein – Noortje
Simone Koch – made a promotional comic for comics store Lambiek
Gradie Knipscheer – Keesje Konijntje
Alice Kok
Judy Koot
Rie Kooyman – Hoki en Poki
Melanie Kranenburg -
Marjolein Krijger
Greetje Kroone
Andrea Kruis – continued Jan, Jans en de Kinderen
Liesbeth Labeur
Freddie Langeler – Pietje Pluk en Kootje Kwak, Bobby den Speurder, Barendje Kwik, Bello Blafmeier
Jolet Leenhouts – De Vier-Vijf-Zes
Nans van Leeuwen – Piggelmee
Lonneke Leever
Anne van de Leur
Maia Matches – Ruby Riveter, Bitch
Ellen Meske – Merik de Meeuw
Johanna Bernardina Midderigh-Bokhorst
Sandra Nieuweboer – Karin, Beppen
Evi Nijs – Alex en het feest van Jeroen Bosch
Mary Oosterdijk -
Coco Ouwerkerk – Acception
Georgien Overwater – Sjanie, Bart en Bob, Hungry Jack
Harriët van Reek
Renée Rienties
Joanika Ring
Emma Ringelding
Maartje Schalkx
Coq Scheltens-Jongkind – Scoutertje, Dikkie
Willy Schermelé
Marieke Scholten
Nora Schnitzler – Keesje Knabbel
Willy Smit – Tijs Wijs De Torenwachter
Anne and Eva Staal, aka De Stalinskis
Sandra Kleine Staarman
Sabine van der Stadt – Big
Barbara Stok – Barbaraal
Gwen Stok – comics adaptations of the short stories by Toon Tellegen
Marlon Teunissen
Magda van Tilburg – makes comic books in Latin and Ancient Greek
Jip van den Toorn
Marjorie Velthuyse – Izzie, Suul & Juul
Toby Vos, aka Neeltje Vos
Marloes de Vries – Lotta
Marijn van der Waa – Hibou
Fiep Westendorp – Jip en Janneke
Nettie van Wijland – De Avonturen van Tijs Loerendraaier en Dikkie Duik
Henriette Willebeek le Mair
Juliette de Wit
Leny Zwalve

Norway

Anna Fiske
Karine Haaland
Lise Myhre
Solveig Muren Sanden – continued Tuss og Troll and Smørbukk
Hanne Sigbjørnsen
Inga Sætre
Vivian Zahl Olsen – ''Småtte''

Poland

Elisabeth Brozowska – ''Josephine''

Portugal

Joana Afonso
María Alcobre
Rita Alfaiate
Bixa – Laçarote e Pantalonas, 3 de Braço Dado
Teresa Camara Pestana
Isabel Carvalho
Ana Cortesão
Helena Dias
Catherine Labey
Joana Lafuente
Isabel Lobinho
Ofélia Marques, aka Ofélia
Susa Monteiro
Joana Mosi
Guida Ottolini
Maria Emília Roque Gameiro, aka Màmia
Raquel Roque Gameiro
Joana Rosa

Romania

Aitch
Louise Hirsch – Tessie Tish, Charlie Chirps
Irina Georgeta Pusztai
Veronica Solomon

Russia

Svetlana Chmakova – artist/writer, Dramacon
Tatyana Gnisiuk
Tanja Neljubina

Scotland

Karrie Fransman – The House That Groaned, Death of the Artist, The Darkness Behind Our Eyes, Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
Lorna Miller – artist/writer: Witch; contributor: Girlfrenzy, The Comics Journal, The Ramones Box Set, Vice; artist/colourist: Thomas the Tank Engine, Toxic, Ben 10, Powerpuff Girls, ''Moshi Monsters''

Spain

Sònia Albert – Professor Breinstein, Disney comics
Meritxell Andreu – Disney comics
Lola Anglada
Juliana Bach – Bunty and Mandy, also known as Marnie en Sanne
Flavita Banana
Carmen Barbará – Mary Noticias
Isabel Bas – Ana-Emilia y su Familia
Míriam Bonastre Tur – Hooky
Purita Campos – Patty's World
Anabel Colazo
Cristina Durán Costell
Rosa Galcerán
Esther Gonzàlez – Miss Pad Thai
Carmen Levi – continued Pif le chien, religious comics
Pilar Mir – Ana Belén
Ana Miralles – Djinn
Roser Oduber
Ana Oncina
Pepita Pardell
Maria Pascual Alberich – Rosa Blancas, Sissi
Moderna de Pueblo
Laura Pérez Vernetti
Margarita Querol Manzano – Disney comics
Raquel Riba
Lourdes Rueda Sala – Disney comics

Sweden

Ottilia Adelborg
Christina Alvner – Coco
Inger Edelfeldt – Hondjuret
Åsa Ekström
Michaela Favilla – worked on the Mamma Mu series
Susanne Fredelius
Kerstin Frykstrand – Muff och Tuff
Anneli Furmark
Annika Giannini – Illustrator Man, Övergångsstället, Roberts vänne, Folk och fä
Ester Gill – Lillans Morgongröt, Den Egenkära Gunilla, Sara
Gunna Grähs
Jenny Holmlund
Johanna Kristiansson – Katten Nils
Eva Lindström
Bia Melin – continued Agust och Lotta
Coco Moodysson
Lina Neidestam
Gunila Stierngranat – Lila Lena och Jon Blund, Lille Göran och Jon Blund, Lasseman och Hans Vänner, Snövit, Morfars Barndomsminnen, Eva-Maria och Ingegegerd
Liv Strömquist – 100 Procent
Minna Sundberg – A Redtail's Dream, Stand Still, Stay Silent
Cecilia Torudd – Ensamma mamman
Margit Uppenberg, aka Gobi – Pian
Natalie Zimmerman

Switzerland

Frida Bünzli, pseudonym of Debra Bühlmann-Drenten
Odrade
Edith Oppenheim-Jonas – Papa Moll
Corinne Schroff
Anna Sommer – Damen Dramen
Valp – Lock, Ashrel
Judith Zaugg

Turkey

United Kingdom

Janet Ahlberg
Wendy Arnot – worked on Rupert Bear
Enid Ash – worked on Rupert Bear
Mabel Lucie Attwell – Wot A Life
Gabrielle Bell – Lucky
Hannah Berry – Britten and Brülightly, Adamtine, Vox Pop, LiveStock, Premeditations
Hilda Boswell – Strongheart
Vera Bowyer
Jenny Butterworth – Tiffany Jones
Katriona Chapman – Katzine, Follow Me In, Breakwater
Kate Charlesworth – Sally Heathcote: Suffragette
Sue Coe
Gillian Crampton Smith
Evelyn Flinders – The Silent Three
Barbara C. Freeman
Dora Gibbon – Muffy in Moonland
Isabel Greenberg – The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
Alex Hallatt – Arctic Circle
Dawn Hargy – The Fabulous Baker Girls)
Laura Howell – Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green, Les Pretend, Tricky Dicky and the manga adaptation of The Beano
Yvonne Hutton – worked on Roy of the Rovers
Helen Jacobs
Lee Kennedy
Jennifer Kisler – continued Rupert Bear
Kat Kon
Sonia Leong
Lucy Matthews – assisted on Rupert Bear
Kathleen McDougall – worked on Rupert Bear
Marjorie Owens – worked on Rupert Bear
Annie Parkhouse
Philippa Perry – Couch Fiction
Dora Royle
Kate Sheppard – Horrible Histories
Posy Simmonds – Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe
Mary M. Talbot – Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Mabel Francis Taylor – The Little Sparrowkins, continued Jungle Jinks
Pat Tourret – Tiffany Jones
Mary Tourtel – Rupert Bear
Inez Townsend – Gretchen Gratz, Snooks and Snicks, the Mischievous Twins
Amby Vaingankar – AmbyComics, also known as Gotta Sketch 'Em All
Suzy Varty – Heröine, Mama! dramas, Nelson
Emma Vieceli
Laura Watton – ''Biomecha''

Oceania

Australia

Moira Bertram – Jo
Queenie Chan – The Dreaming, Tokyopop
Elizabeth Durack – Nungalla and Jungalla
Cecilia May Gibbs – Bib and Bub, Tiggy Touchwood
Nicki Greenberg
Sarah Howell
Marguerita – Zyg & Mea
June Mendoza
Jenia Meng
Kathleen O'Brien – Wanda the War Girl
Mandy Ord
Carolyn Ridsdale
Madeleine Rosca – Hollow Fields
Nicola Scott
Nicole Skeltys – Pigeon Coup
Ruth Vickery – Betty and Bill, ''Molly the Mermaid''

New Zealand

Sharon Alston – made comics for Broadsheet
Kim Casali – ''Love is...''