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
Congo
Fifi Mukuna
Egypt
Bahiga Thomassian, aka Bhiga
Amaal Khattab
Gabon
Sophie Endamne
Ivory Coast
Marguerite Abouet - (writer of Aya of Yop City)
Madagascar
Jenny
M'Aa - (makes comics together with her husband Xhi)
Mauritius
Annick Sadonnet, aka Sadon, Ajol or Sade
Tanzania
Martha Gellege - (Anti Bwalo)
South Africa
Karen Botha
Marieke Blomerus
Marisa Cloete - (Gebuza, To Dig a Big Hole) Lara-Ann Jibrail Mariette Kemp Sian Kuiken Ingrid van der Merwe Ina van Zyl
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 Julie Doucet Susan Dewar Leanne Franson Odette Fumet (newspaper comic strip adaptations of swashbuckler novels), dies at age 94. Pia Guerra - artist, Vertigo's Y The Last Man Lynn Johnston - For Better or For Worse. Molly Kiely Sophie Labelle Yvette Lapointe - Les Petits Espiègles Kate Leth - writer, Bravest Warriors (Boom! Comics), Edward Scissorhands (IDW), Adventure Time (Boom! Comics) Gisèle Lagacé - Cool Cat Studio, Penny and Aggie, Ménage à 3 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
Mexico
Cecilia Pego
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)