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.

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

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

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
 * 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

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
 * 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

 * 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

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
 * Nanae Chrono – Peacemaker Kurogane, Senki Senki Momotama, Vassalord
 * Clamp – RG Veda, Magic Knight Rayearth, Cardcaptor Sakura, 	Angelic Layer, Chobits, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic
 * - Shinobi Life
 * Eiki Eiki – Dear Myself, Train Train, Color
 * Nariko Enomoto
 * Mihona Fujii – Gals!
 * – 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 x 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!
 * – 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
 * – 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
 * – 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
 * – 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
 * - 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

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
 * 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 - 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

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...