Female Writers and Artists? 0

[handyjack]

I know there are a few Lady Collectors out there, I was just wondering if there are or have ever been any Woman Artists or Writers, or are Comic books solely a testosterone driven industry. Hard to believe this is the case all things considered in todays world.

[Ken Aldred]

- Ramona Fradon 

- Marie Severin

- Chynna Clugston

- Jessica Abel

- Amanda Conner

 

That was from memory.

 

Then, after about ten seconds of Googling...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_comics_creators

[handyjack]

that's quite a few, didnt realize it. Guess I should have googled it first, just that I never hear any conversations about their work like the other male creators.

[Wally's Comics]

Dee Dee!

 

 

 

 

[Guest Reader]

Lynn Varley colored Ronin, Dark Knight Returns and 300.

[John R]

Sara Pichelli

Jill Thompson

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Gail Simone

[miraclemet]

Pia Guerra had a long successful run as the artist on Y: The Last Man

Gail Simone has had amazing runs on Deadpool, Birds of Prey, Secret 6, etc

Recently there was a kickstarter project called Womanthology that raised over 100k helmed by Renae De Liz with work by Anne Nocinti, Fiona Staples

 

you dont have to look very hard to find great female tallent both in the writing and art departments.... much less in editorial. Yes its a male dominated industry, but there are a number of successful female creators, who write/draw all kinds of books....

[buddymagoo]

Becky Cloonan was the first ever female Batman artist on the recent issue (12) with Scott Snyder.

[miraclemet]

here's another one that gets unnoticed since she's not on the "tallent" side of things.

Diana Schutz's tenure is impressive> Editor in Chief at Comico when it was churning out Wagner's Grendel & Mage. Moved over to Dark Horse in 1990 and helped move it its current position as a leading second tier Publisher (behind Marvel/DC, and alongside Image). She edited Sin City, Yusagi Yojimbo, Croncrete, etc

 

In fact she came up with the Maverick line which was the creator owned branch of Dark Horse, created to avoid the talent drains that were affecting Marvel and DC in the 90s, as a result Dark Horse didnt experience the same losses in talents that the big 2 did in the 90s, and still have relationships with Miller, Sam Keith and other creators who surely would have gone solo and left DH with very little talent cache ...

[Beige]

Pia Guerra had a long successful run as the artist on Y: The Last Man

Gail Simone has had amazing runs on Deadpool, Birds of Prey, Secret 6, etc

Recently there was a kickstarter project called Womanthology that raised over 100k helmed by Renae De Liz with work by Anne Nocinti, Fiona Staples

 

you dont have to look very hard to find great female tallent both in the writing and art departments.... much less in editorial. Yes its a male dominated industry, but there are a number of successful female creators, who write/draw all kinds of books....

 

Just look at "Y" - Guerras work is outstanding.

That shouldn't even need to be googled.

[miraclemet]

another great female front office talent; Karen Berger. Creator of the Vertigo line at DC which led to a ton of successful titles that weren't "Capes" books, and allowed DC to keep many of its best writers during the 2000s (Gaiman, Ellis, MIlligan, Morrison, etc) when "creator owned" was having a 90s-esque revival thanks to movie development deals. All of it was started by Karen.

[micmack]

Adriana Melo - Ms. Marvel artist at one time

Maria Benes - Ed Benes's sister

[miraclemet]

Alison Bechdel won an Eisner, a National Book award and was on several Book of the Decade lists for her graphic novel "Fun Home"

[miraclemet]

Maria Benes - Ed Benes's sister

 

...and an Inker for marvel....

[DeliBebek]

Louise Simonson was pretty vital to Marvel Comics during the 80s, and one of the big Superman writers in the early 90s.

 

I have a lot of respect for Wendy Pini and Colleen Doran also, as both writers and artists.

[Doc Joe]

I may be wrong but I think this was the first comic fully done by a woman.

 

June Tarp Mills - created, wrote and drew Miss Fury.

 

[Mister_Comics]

Clara Elsene Peck who is a famous American illustrator and artist did a lot of art work in TREASURE CHEST comics during the 50's & 60's. Treasure Chest was a comic that was distributed in schools during the 40's up until 74'.

[sniderwj]

Can't forget Jo Chen. Crazy talented and super nice.

 

 

[Point Five]

Golden age artist Lily Renée, active in the 1940s ... a fascinating life, and amazingly she is still with us.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Ren%C3%A9e

 

 

[Point Five]

I may be wrong but I think this was the first comic fully done by a woman.

 

June Tarp Mills - created, wrote and drew Miss Fury.

 

Cool! Never knew that. (thumbs u