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Machiko Hasegawa

Pioneering Japanese manga artist best known for creating the popular comic strip “Sazae-san” in 1946. Her work achieved national circulation in 1949 and ran daily until her retirement in 1974.

Esphyr Slobodkina

Russian-American artist, author, and illustrator

Norma Borthwick

Irish artist, writer and Irish-language activist

Tove Jansson

Finnish author, artist, and illustrator whose most famous works are the children’s novels in the Moomin series

Mary Agnes Chase

American botanist specializing in agrostology, the study of grasses.

Grace Gifford

Irish cartoonist and republican

Angela MacDonnell

Countess of Antrim , sculptor, cartoonist, and illustrator

Dagmar Wilson

American anti-nuclear testing activist, artist, and illustrator of children’s books

In spite of the fact she spent nearly her entire adult life living and working outside her country of birth, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva is today considered one of Portugal’s most important female artists.

Olive Pink

It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.