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

## Africa
### Congo

* Fifi Mukuna

### Egypt

* Amaal Khattab
* 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 (Tokyopop)
* 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 (Boom! Comics), Edward Scissorhands (IDW), Adventure Time (Boom! Comics)
* 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

### 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 (born in the U.K., later moved to the U.S.) – Gretchen Gratz, Snooks and Snicks, the Mischievous Twins
* Dorothy Urfer – Annibelle

#### Golden Age/Silver Age (1930s c . 1970)

* 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 (Holyoke Comics), Miss Fury
* Jackie Ormes – Torchy Brown, Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger
* Ramone Patenaude, aka Pat
* Albertine Randall – The Dumbunnies
* Lily Renée, aka Reney (Lily Renée Wilhelms Peters and Lily Renée Phlllips) – worked for Fiction House and St. John Publications
* Ruth Roche – writer of Phantom Lady (Fox Comics)
* 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

#### Bronze Age and Modern Age

* Laura Allred – colorist
* Sana Amanat – editor, Ms. Marvel (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 (Dark Horse Comics
* Karen Berger – editor, DC Comics' Vertigo imprint
* Christina Blanch – writer, editor, Good Boy, Mysterium, The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood
* Maddie Blaustein – writer, Milestone Comics' Hardware
* June Brigman – co-creator of Power Pack (Marvel Comics); final artist Brenda Starr, Reporter
* Madeline Brogan
* Sarah Byam – writer, Black Canary (DC Comics), Mode Extreme (Marvel/Razorline
* Bobbie Chase – Marvel Comics editor
* Roz Chast – New Yorker staff cartoonist The Party After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995–2003
* Jo Chen – cover artist, Dark Horse Comics's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
* Joyce Chin – Wynonna Earp
* Becky Cloonan
* Nancy A. Collins – writer, DC/Vertigo's Swamp Thing
* Amanda Conner – The Pro (Image Comics), Disney's Gargoyles (Marvel Comics)
* Colleen Coover
* Barbara Dale – The Stanley Family
* Rosario Dawson – Occult Crimes Taskforce Image Comics
* Kelly Sue DeConnick – Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble (Marvel)
* Tania del Rio – Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Archie Comics)
* 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 (Platinum Studios
* Stephanie Gladden
* Devin Grayson – writer, Arsenal, Batman: Gotham Knights, Catwoman, Nightwing (all DC Comics)
* Pia Guerra – Y The Last Man
* Stephanie Hans – DIE (Image Comics), cover artist (Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, BOOM))
* Jody Houser – writer, Faith (Valiant Comics), Mother Panic (Young Animal), Supergirl (DC Comics), Vox Machina Origins (Dark Horse)
* Judith Hunt – Evangeline (Comico
* 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 (IDW Publishing)
* 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 (DC Comics), Saint Sinner (Marvel/Razorline)
* Marjorie Liu – writer, X-23, Black Widow, Dark Wolverine, NYX, Astonishing X-Men (Marvel Comics)
* Nilah Magruder
* 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 – Ms. Marvel
* Denise Mina – writer, Vertigo's Hellblazer
* Leah Moore – writer, Wildstorm's Albion
* Mindy Newell – writer/editor, Marvel, DC, and First)
* Ann Nocenti – writer, Daredevil
* Sonia Oback – colorist, Uncanny X-Men, X-23: Target X
* 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 (Marvel Comics)
* 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
* 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 (Marvel Comics)
* 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 (Marvel Comics)
* 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 (Vertigo), Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
* Kim Yale – writer/editor, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, First Comics, and Warp Graphics

#### OEL manga

* Tina Anderson – writer, Only Words (Iris Print), Games With Me (The Wild Side), Loud Snow (Gynocrat INK)
* Jo Chen – artist, Digital Manga's In These Words
* Becky Cloonan – artist, AiT/Planet Lar's Demo
* Mary Cagle – artist/writer, Sleepless Domain (Seven Seas)
* Alex de Campi – writer, Kat & Mouse (Tokyopop)
* Amy Kim Ganter – artist/writer, Sorcerers & Secretaries (Tokyopop)
* Holly Golightly, aka Holly G!, Fauve – artist/writer, School Bites (Broadsword Comics)
* 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" (Del Rey Manga)
* Amy Reeder – artist/writer, Fool's Gold (Tokyopop)
* Rivkah – artist/writer, Steady Beat (Tokyopop)

#### 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 (Top Shelf)
* Ali Fitzgerald – Drawn to Berlin
* Mary Fleener – Fleener (Zongo Comics
* Shary Flenniken – Trots and Bonnie
* Ellen Forney – I Love Led Zeppelin
* Shaenon Garrity – Narbonic
* Melinda Gebbie – Lost Girls
* Nicole Georges – Invincible Summer
* Roz Gibson – Jack Salem
* Tatiana Gill
* Phoebe Gloeckner – creator, A Child's Life and The Diary of a Teenage Girl
* Roberta Gregory – Naughty Bits
* Mary Hanson-Roberts – Here Comes A Candle
* Jessie Hartland – Steve Jobs: Insanely Great!
* Maria Hoey – works with her brother Peter Hoey on the series Coin-Op
* G.B. Jones
* Megan Kelso – Artichoke Tales
* Lucy Knisley – French Milk, Relish, An Age of License, Displacement (Fantagraphics), 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 (Dark Horse Comics), 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 (Newcity)
* Christine Shields
* Carole Sobocinski
* Raina Telgemeier – Smile (A Dental Drama)
* 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! (also known as Julie)
* 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 (1985–2011)
* 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
### China

* Shuhui Wang
* Zhang Xiaobai – Si loin et si proche
* Luo Yin

### India

* Shreyas Krishnan
* Parismita Singh

### Iran

* Atena Farghadani
* Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

### Israel

* Mira Friedmann
* Batia Kolton
* Rutu Modan
* Elisheva Nadal

### Japan

* Chako Abeno – Sola, My-Otome Zwei
* Akira Amano – Reborn!
* Kozue Amano – Aria
* Yasuko Aoike
* Kotomi Aoki – Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru, Kanojo wa Uso o Aishisugiteru
* Ume Aoki – Hidamari Sketch
* Kiyoko Arai – Angel Lip, Ask Dr. Rin!
* Hiromu Arakawa – Fullmetal Alchemist
* Sakura Asagi
* Yū Asagiri – Golden Cain, Midnight Panther
* George Asakura – A Perfect Day for Love Letters
* Hinako Ashihara – Sand Chronicles, Forbidden Dance, Piece – Kanojo no Kioku
* Izumi Aso
* Yuki Azuma – Schoolmate
* Ippongi Bang
* Toriko Chiya – Clover, Tokyo Alice
* Clamp – RG Veda, Magic Knight Rayearth, Cardcaptor Sakura, Angelic Layer, Chobits, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic
* Shōko Conami [ja] - Shinobi Life
* Eiki Eiki – Dear Myself, Train Train, Color
* Nariko Enomoto
* Mihona Fujii – Gals!
* Mari Fujimura [ja] – Kyō wa Kaisha Yasumimasu.
* Kazuko Fujita – Makoto Call!, Four Steps to Romance
* Cocoa Fujiwara – dear, Inu x Boku SS
* Hiro Fujiwara – Kaichō wa Maid-sama!
* Moto Hagio
* Nanae Haruno
* Machiko Hasegawa – Sazae-san
* Bisco Hatori – Ouran High School Host Club
* Akiko Higashimura – Kisekae Yuka-chan, Himawari – Kenichi Legend, Mama ha Temparish)
* Asa Higuchi – Big Windup!
* Tachibana Higuchi – Portrait of M and N, Gakuen Alice
* Aoi Hiiragi – Mimi wo Sumaseba
* Matsuri Hino – Vampire Knight
* Saki Hiwatari – Please Save My Earth, Internal Magic
* Katsura Hoshino – D.Gray-man
* Chieko Hosokawa – Attention Please, Crest of the Royal Family
* Yumi Hotta – writer of Hikaru no Go
* Hozumi – Shiki no Zenjitsu, Sayonara Sorcier
* Yukari Ichijo
* Yumiko Igarashi
* Riyoko Ikeda – The Rose of Versailles
* Gō Ikeyamada – Uwasa no Midori-kun!!, Suki Desu Suzuki-kun!!, Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!
* Satomi Ikezawa – Guru Guru Pon-chan, Othello
* Ryo Ikuemi – Bara-Iro no Ashita, Kiyoku Yawaku
* Sukune Inugami – Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, Renai Distortion, Ashita mo Kotokoto
* Risa Itō – Oi Pītan!!, Oruchuban Ebichu
* Natsumi Itsuki
* Mariko Iwadate
* Kaneyoshi Izumi – Sonnanja neyo
* Yuna Kagesaki – Chibi Vampire
* Narumi Kakinouchi – illustrator of Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo, Vampire Princess Miyu
* Yoko Kamio – Boys Over Flowers, Cat Street
* Aya Kanno – Soul Rescue, Blank Slate, Otomen
* Junko Karube
* Haruko Kashiwagi – Hanazono Merry Go Round
* Kazune Kawahara – High School Debut, writer of My Love Story!!
* Yumiko Kawahara
* Mizuki Kawashita – Strawberry 100%, First Love Limited, Anedoki
* Kazumi Kazui – Dōse Mō Nigerarenai
* Izumi Kazuto – Binbō Shimai Monogatari
* Toshie Kihara
* Renjūrō Kindaichi (金田一蓮十郎) – Liar × Liar
* Yuki Kiriga
* Miyuki Kobayashi
* Momoko Kōda – Heroine Shikkaku
* Yun Kōga
* Fumiyo Kōno – Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni
* Mitsurō Kubo – Moteki and Again!
* Ryōko Kui [ja] – Terrarium in Drawer, Dungeon Meshi
* Fusako Kuramochi
* Yuki Kure
* Maki Kusumoto – Kissxxxx, V. Eye, K no Souretsu – The Funeral Procession of K, Die Tödliche Dolis
* Kei Kusunoki – Girls Saurus, Ogre Slayer, Diabolo, Bitter Virgin
* Nao Maita (まいた菜穂) – Age 12
* Miyako Maki
* Sanami Matoh – Fake, By the Sword
* Naoko Matsuda (ja) – Jūhan Shuttai!
* Temari Matsumoto – Kyo Kara Maoh!, Just My Luck, The Loudest Whisper: Uwasa No Futari, Shinobu Kokoro: Hidden Heart, Cause of My Teacher
* Akemi Matsunae
* Hibari Meguro (目黒ひばり) – Seiyū Mashimashi Club
* Mitsukazu Mihara – IC in a Sunflower, Beautiful People, Doll, Haunted House, R.I.P.: Requiem in Phonybrian, The Embalmer
* Rin Mikimoto (ja) – Kin Kyori Renai, Kyō no Kira-kun
* Kanan Minami – Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu
* Kazuka Minami – My Paranoid Next Door Neighbor
* Tōko Minami (ja) – ReRe Hello
* Ai Minase (ja) – Hachimitsu ni Hatsukoi
* Kazuya Minekura – Saiyuki, Wild Adapter, Saiyuki Ibun, Saiyuki Reload Blast
* Suzue Miuchi
* Kyoko Mizuki – writer Candy Candy
* Hideko Mizuno – Fire!, Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken
* Junko Mizuno – Pure Trance
* Setona Mizushiro – X-Day, After School Nightmare
* Jun Mochizuki – Pandora Hearts
* Kozueko Morimoto [ja] – Deka Wanko, Gokusen, Kōdai-ke no Hitobito
* Milk Morinaga – Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo, Girl Friends
* Akiko Morishima – Hanjuku-Joshi
* Suu Morishita (森下suu) – Like a Butterfly
* Milk Morizono
* Maki Murakami
* Mayu Murata (村田真優) – Nagareboshi Lens
* Mayumi Muroyama
* Aya Nakahara – Love Com, Berry Dynamite
* Hisaya Nakajo – Hana-Kimi, Sugar Princess
* Hikaru Nakamura – Arakawa Under the Bridge, Saint Young Men
* Yoshiki Nakamura – Skip Beat!, Tokyo Crazy Paradise
* Junko Nakano (中野純子) – B-Shock!, Chisa × Pon, Hetakoi
* Nagamu Nanaji [ja] – Parfait Tic!
* Kiriko Nananan – blue, Strawberry Shortcakes
* Atsuko Nanba (南波あつこ) – Senpai to Kanojo
* Minako Narita – Cipher, Alexandrite, Hana Yori mo Hana no Gotoku
* Tomoko Ninomiya – Nodame Cantabile
* Keiko Nishi – Sanban-chō Hagiwara-ya no Bijin, Love Song
* Yoshiko Nishitani
* Miho Obana – Kodomo no Omocha
* Akane Ogura – Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen
* Saori Oguri – Is He Turning Japanese?
* Shinobu Ohtaka – Sumomomo Momomo, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
* Reiko Okano – Fancy Dance
* Hiromu Ono – Lady Love
* Natsume Ono – Ristorante Paradiso, House of Five Leaves
* Yumiko Ōshima – The Star of Cottonland
* Minami Ozaki
* Mari Ozawa
* Peach-Pit
* Marimo Ragawa – Baby and Me
* Akizuki Risu
* Robico – My Little Monster
* Rieko Saibara – Bokunchi, Mainichi Kaasan, Onnanoko Monogatari, Jōkyō Monogatari
* Fumi Saimon
* Mayu Sakai – Rockin' Heaven
* Io Sakisaka – Strobe Edge
* Momoko Sakura – Chibi Maruko-chan
* Koharu Sakuraba – Kyō no Go no Ni, Minami-ke
* Kanoko Sakurakoji – Backstage Prince, Black Bird
* Erica Sakurazawa
* Machiko Satonaka
* Chika Shiina [ja] – creator of 37.5°C no Namida
* Karuho Shiina – Kimi ni Todoke
* Reiko Shimizu
* Takako Shimura – Aoi Hana, Wandering Son
* Mayu Shinjo – Sensual Phrase, Akuma na Eros, Haou Airen, Love Celeb, Ai Ore!
* Chie Shinohara – Ao no Fūin, Romance of Darkness, Red River, Purple Eyes in the Dark
* Aya Shouoto – S.L.H Stray Love Hearts!, Kiss of Rose Princess, He's My Only Vampire
* Fuyumi Soryo
* Keiko Suenobu – Life, Limit)
* Yuki Suetsugu – Chihayafuru
* Akira Sugito [ja] - Boku Girl
* Hinako Sugiura
* Miwako Sugiyama (杉山美和子) – True Love
* Hiro Suzuhira – Ginban Kaleidoscope
* Julietta Suzuki
* Haruko Tachiiri
* Megumi Tachikawa
* Kaoru Tada
* Rumiko Takahashi – Urusei Yatsura, Ranma ½, InuYasha
* Hinako Takanaga – Challengers, Little Butterfly, Liberty Liberty!, The Tyrant Falls in Love
* Ichigo Takano (ja) – Yume Miru Taiyō, Orange
* Rica Takashima – Rica 'tte Kanji!?
* Natsuki Takaya – Phantom Dream, Tsubasa: Those with Wings, Songs to Make You Smile, Fruits Basket, Hoshi wa Utau, Liselotte and Witch's Forest
* Yuyuko Takemiya – writer of Evergreen)
* Naoko Takeuchi – Sailor Moon
* Yumi Tamura – Basara, Chicago, 7 Seeds
* Yellow Tanabe – Kekkaishi
* Meca Tanaka – Meteor Prince)
* Arina Tanemura – Full Moon o Sagashite, Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura
* Keiko Tobe – With the Light
* Yana Toboso – Black Butler
* Asami Tojo (東城麻美) – Chimera, X-Kai, Thunderbolt Boys Excite, Love Prism, Only You
* Ema Tōyama – Pixie Pop, Koko ni iru yo!
* Masami Tsuda – Kare Kano, Eensy Weensy Monster, Chotto Edo Made
* Mikiyo Tsuda – The Day of Revolution, Family Complex, Princess Princess
* Shungicu Uchida – Minami-kun no Koibito
* Miwa Ueda – Peach Girl
* Kimiko Uehara
* Chica Umino – Honey and Clover, March Comes in Like a Lion
* Tsunami Umino (ja) – Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu
* Yumi Unita (ja) – Sukimasuki, Bunny Drop
* Yuki Urushibara – Mushishi
* Masako Watanabe
* Taeko Watanabe – Hajime-chan ga Ichiban!, Kaze Hikaru)
* Yuu Watase – Fushigi Yūgi, Ceres, Celestial Legend, Absolute Boyfriend)
* Yū Yabūchi – Mizuiro Jidai, Naisho no Tsubomi, Hitohira no Koi ga Furu
* Murasaki Yamada
* Ryoko Yamagishi
* Ebine Yamaji
* Sumika Yamamoto
* Kazumi Yamashita – The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa
* Kyoko Yamashita
* Waki Yamato
* Mari Yamazaki – Thermae Romae)
* Ai Yazawa – Nana
* Akimi Yoshida
* Yuki Yoshihara
* Miki Yoshikawa – Yankee-kun to Megane-chan)
* Fumi Yoshinaga – Antique Bakery, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers)
* Wataru Yoshizumi – Handsome na Kanojo, Marmalade Boy, Ultra Maniac
* Kaori Yuki – Earl Cain, Angel Sanctuary
* Sumomo Yumeka

### Kazakhstan

* Dilyara Nassyrova

### Lebanon

* Zeina Abirached

### 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 (born in South Korea, later moved to Belgium)

### 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 (born as a woman, later became a transgender man) – 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 - (Doorsnee)
* 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
* 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 (born in South Korea, later moved to Belgium)

### 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
* Marie Hjuler [da] - 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
* 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 (born in France, later moved to Portugal)
* Oriane Lassus – Spongiculture
* Sandrine Lemoult
* Samantha Leriche-Gionet (Boum) – 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 (born in Iran, later moved to France) – Persepolis
* Joëlle Savey
* Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna")
* Anne Simon – author of The Song of Aglaia (Fantagraphics)
* 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 (born in Germany, spent her life in Switzerland) – 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 - (Alis, worked on Dylan Dog)
* 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 - (Shaya's Dagboek, Bibi en Bikkel)
* 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 - (Naasten)
* 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 (born in Canada, moved to the Netherlands) – 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 - (assisted on Kappie)
* 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 (O Bestiário de Isa)
* María Alcobre
* Rita Alfaiate
* Bixa – Laçarote e Pantalonas, 3 de Braço Dado
* Teresa Camara Pestana
* Maria Isabel Carvalho
* Ana Cortesão
* Helena Dias
* Catherine Labey (born in France, later moved to Portugal)
* Joana Lafuente (Transformers)
* Isabel Lobinho
* Ofélia Marques, aka Ofélia
* Susa Monteiro
* Joana Mosi
* Guida Ottolini
* Maria Emília Roque Gameiro, aka Màmia
* Raquel Roque Gameiro
* Joana Rosa (TMG – The Mighty Gang, Dreamland Protectors)

### Romania

* Aitch
* Louise Hirsch (born in Romania, moved to the U.S.) – Tessie Tish, Charlie Chirps
* Irina Georgeta Pusztai
* Veronica Solomon

### Russia

* Svetlana Chmakova – artist/writer, Dramacon (Tokyopop)
* 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
* 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
* Stina Hjelm [sv]
* 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 (born in Germany, spent her life in Switzerland) – Papa Moll
* Corinne Schroff
* Anna Sommer – Damen Dramen
* Valp (Valentine Pasche) – Lock, Ashrel
* Judith Zaugg

### Turkey

* Selma Emiroğlu
* Ramize Erer

### 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 (born in the U.K., later moved to the U.S.) – 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...