March 3rd as some of you may be aware is International Women’s Day. In honor of the day, I just wanted to remind you all to think about just a few of the fabulous females that create your favorite fables! As everyone is aware, ladies in in comics are few & far between……….
Only a few talented women like Gail Simone, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Amanda Conner, Kate Leth, Faith Erin Hicks, Devin Grayson, Wendy Pini, Nicola Scott, Louise Simonson, Kate Beaton, Maitena Burundarena, Adriana Brunstein, Anita Costa Prado, Beth Kodama, Bianca Pinheiro, Chiquinha, Ciça, Cristina Eiko, Edna Márcia Lopes, Erica Awano, Helena Fonseca, Julia Bax, Laerte, Lu Cafaggi, Maria Aparecida Godoy, Petra Leão, Rosana Rios, Samanta Flôor, Sheree Bradford-Lea, Julie Doucet, Leanne Franson, Obom, Iris, Zviane, Sophie Bédard, Sylvie Rancourt, Pascaline Lefèvre, Cathon, Nell Brinkley, Rose O’Neill, Grace G. Drayton, Margaret G. Hays, Ethel Hays, Pearl Bartruff, Nina Albright, Ruth Atkinson, Olive Bailey, Violet Barclay, Toni Blum, Ann Brewster, Linda Fite, Ramona Fradon, Barbara Hall, Ray Herman, Patricia Highsmith, Virginia Hubbell, Natalie Krigstein, Lee Marrs, Alice Marble, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Marion McDermott, Emma C. McKean, Tarpe Mills, Joye Murchison, Lily Renée a.k.a. Reney, Ruth Roche, Marie Severin, Marcia Snyder, Daisy Swayze, Janice Valleau, Tatjana Wood, Dorothy Woolfolk a.k.a. Dorothy Roubicek, Laura Allred, Fiona Avery, Samm Barnes, Anina Bennett, Amber Benson, Karen Berger, Maddie Blaustein, Nicole Boose, June Brigman, Sarah Byam, Kat Cahill, Roz Chast, Meloney Crawford Chadwick, Bobbie Chase, Joyce Chin, Nancy A. Collins, Colleen Coover, Joanna Davidovich, Rosario Dawson, Renae De Liz, Tania del Rio, Kristen Fitzner Denton, Rachel Dodson, Colleen Doran, Valerie D’Orazio, Leigh Dragoon, Jo Duffy a.k.a. Mary Jo Duffy, Jan Duursema, Mary Fleener, Kaja Foglio, Robin Furth, Shaenon K. Garrity, Megan Rose Gedris, Pia Guerra, Sandra Hope, Eva Hopkins, Heidi Hughes, Judith Hunt, Lora Innes, Jenna Jameson, Barbara Kaalberg, Jenette Kahn, Carol Kalish, Annette Kawecki, Barbara Kesel a.k.a. Barbara Randall Kesel, Sheila Keenan, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Kim Krizan, Elaine Lee, Stephanie Lesniak, Marjorie Liu, Linda Ly, Cynthia Martin, Laura Martin, Tara McPherson, Adriana Melo, Rachelle Menashe, Mary Mitchell, Leah Moore, Melanie J. Morgan, Mindy Newell, Ann Nocenti, Sonia Oback, Glynis Oliver, Lisa Patrick, Jodi Picoult, Tamora Pierce, Rachel Pollack, Janice Race, Nickiesha Ashanty Ricketts, Emma Rios, Susana Romero, Jessica Ruffner, Sara Ryan, Diana Schutz, Barbara Schulz, Erica Schultz, Jean Simek, Kristen Simon, Mary Skrenes, Barbara Slate, Beth Sotelo, Fiona Staples, Roxanne Starr, Christina Strain, Jill Thompson, Maggie Thompson, Kathleen Webb, Christina Weir, G. Willow Wilson, Sana Amanat, Amy Wolfram, Teri S. Wood, Darlene Culkin, Kim Yale, Christina Z, Sara Pichelli, Kathryn Immonen, Dawn Brown, Katie Kubert, Tina Anderson, Queenie Chan, Jo Chen, Svetlana Chmakova, Lindsay Cibos, Becky Cloonan, Jinky Coronado a.k.a. Meryl “Jinky” Coronado Calanog Campiti, Alex de Campi, Melissa DeJesus, Camilla D’Errico, Joanna Estep, Irene Flores, Amy Kim Ganter, Holly Golightly a.k.a. Holly G!, Priscilla Hamby, Lea Hernandez, Gisèle Lagacé, Nina Matsumoto, María Victoria Robado (Shouri), Amy Reeder, Rivkah, Cassandra Wedeking, Carmen Aquino, Jessica Abel, Lady Attercop, Jennie Breeden, Donna Barr, Fallon Star, Alison Bechdel, Gabrielle Bell, Joyce Brabner, Paige Braddock, M.K. Brown, Jennifer Camper, Geneviève Castrée, Ruji Chapnik, Shannon Chenoweth, Chynna Clugston, Colleen Coover, Danielle Corsetto, Sophie Crumb, Dame Darcy, Vanessa Davis, Spaniel Rage, Jennifer Daydreamer, Abby Denson, Diane DiMassa, Colleen Doran, Julie Doucet, Sarah Dyer, Jess Fink, Mary Fleener, Shary Flenniken, Ellen Forney, Shaenon Garrity, Melinda Gebbie, Nicole Georges, Tatiana Gill, Phoebe Gloeckner, Roberta Gregory, G.B. Jones, Megan Kelso, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Carol Lay, Hope Larson, Jackie Lewis, Vanesa Littlecrow, MariNaomi, Carla Speed McNeil, Erika Moen, Diane Noomin, Christine Norrie, Liz Prince, Trina Robbins, Ariel Schrag, Dori Seda, Terrie Smith, Tara Tallan, Raina Telgemeier, Carol Tyler, Serena Valentino, Penny Van Horn, Sara Varon, Lauren Weinstein, Julia Wertz, Kate Worley, Catherine Yronwode, Ursula Murray Husted, Joyce Farmer, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Lynda Barry, Marjorie Henderson Buell under pseudonym “Marge”, Teresa Burritt, Mabel Burvick under pseudonym “Odin” a.k.a. Odin Burvik, Kate Carew under pseudonym of Mary Williams, Nellie Caroll, Natalie d’Arbeloff, Grace Dayton, Edwina Dumm under pseudonym “Edwina”, Jan Eliot, Mary Gauerke, Cathy Guisewite, Alex Hallatt, Bunny Hoest, Nicole Hollander, Virginia Huget, Judith Hunt, Lynn Johnston, Terri Libenson, Marty Links, Dale Messick, Gladys Parker, Rina Piccolo, Mary Schmich, Margaret Shulock, & Hilda Terry.
Among others. & I will not even bother you with the tiny numbers of women in Europe & Asia!
So not very many! It is too bad girls do not like comics! ;b
