Cathy Guisewite
Debuting in 1976, Cathy Guisewite’s unapologetically autobiographical strip addressed romance, marriage, family relationships, pets, food, and work
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Dale Messick
Messick’s Brenda Starr was a worthy female counterpart to male heroes marked a milestone among comics by women. At its peak, the strip ran in 250 newspapers.
Anne Harriet Fish
Designing more than 30 cover designs for Vanity Fair, Fish also created elegant cartoon, caricature, and illustration drawings that were published in other magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan.
Anne Mergen
Few if any other women held a comparable position while she worked as the editorial cartoonist for the Miami Daily News from 1933–1956.
Barbara Brandon-Croft
In her comic that revolves around single black female characters, Brandon-Croft presents spirited, sometimes heated discussions addressing issues of race, identity, and relationships—topics atypical of most strips in the 1990s. Her work debuted in the Detroit Free Press in 1989 and in 1991 she became the first nationally syndicated black female cartoonist.
Barbara Shermund
A frequent contributor to the New Yorker, Esquire, Life, and other mainstream magazines of the day, she revealed a feminist attitude in her portrayals of women in atypical situations, yet did not avoid poking fun at women’s behavior in her work.
Carol Tyler
Comic artist Carol Tyler came of age during the underground comix movement in San Francisco
Anita Kunz
Canadian illustrator, painter and editorial cartoonist
Ann Telnaes
In 2001 Ann Telnaes became the second woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
Julia Suski
Artist and musician