Thu, 31 March 2011 women in comics in UK/Ireland – redux

The promised follow-up to the British women in comics blog post in January. I’ve written an overview of this entry also.

A list of female writers and artists (colourists, inkers, pencilers, etc.) who work in sequential storytelling in the UK and Ireland.

I’ve created a permanent page for this list on my web site – it’s linked on the sidebar. This post will no longer be updated. All further updates will be on the page.

Artists / Writers

• Dani Abrams (work in Bayou Arcana)
• Patrice Aggs (‘The Boss’ strip in DFC, illustrator of 50+ children’s books)
• Erica Akerlund (Knick Their Eyes)
• Asia Alfasi (“JinNarration”, Native Narratives)
• Kate Anderson
• Catherine Anyango (Heart of Darkness)
• Kristyna Baczynski (Ladder)
• Badaude (London Walks!)
• Fez Baker (Thrill Electric, Tara Duncan)
• Becky Barnicoat
• Hannah Berry (Britten and Brulightly)
• Katie Blackwood (The Linguistic Goat) *
• Jess Bradley (Milk Town)
• Kate Brown (The Spider Moon, Fish + Chocolate)
• Rebecca Burgess (London Underworld, Illusional Beauty)
• Kit Buss (Thrill Electric, gayWindflower Studios)
• Francesca Cassavetti (The Most Natural Thing in the World, Sole Searching)
• Kate Charlesworth (The Cartoon History of Time)
• Chloe Citrine (Rainbow Carousel, Vol 1)
• Maeve Clancy (Flatmates) *
• Brittany Coxon (Not Mushroom for Thought)
• Jeremy Day (Whores of Mensa, work in The Girly Comic)
• Deirdre de Barra (work in Longstone Comics, Downpour) *
• Alice Duke (‘Tell Tale Heart’ in Nevermore)
• Sara Dunkerton (“Red Riding Hood” in Into the Woods, “Promises” in Bayou Arcana)
• Kate Evans (Unravelling, Copse)
• Josceline Fenton (Unkin, Circle)
• Anna Fitzpatrick (Between Worlds) *
• Karrie Fransman (The Night I Lost My Love, My Peculiar World)
• Maya Gavin (2000AD)
• Melinda Gebbie (Lost Girls, Cobweb in Tomorrow Stories)
• Katie Green (Lighter Than My Shadow, Bake Me a Cake)
• Isabel Greenberg (Masters of the Universe)
• Liz Greenfield (Stuff Sucks)
• Jennie Gyllblad (Skal, story in Bayou Arcana)
• Myra Hancock (Myra, Crisis, 2000AD)
• Leeann Hamilton (Finn & Fish) *
• Freya Harrison (The Daredevil Monkeys)
• Willie Hewes (Amaranth, founder of ITCH Publishing)
• Robin Hoelzemann (Curia Regis)
• Laura Howell (strips in The Beano, The Bizarre Adventures of Gilbert and Sullivan)
• Sally Hurst (2000AD)
• Kate Keattch (Jarred, Vol 1)
• Angela Kincaid (co-creator of Sláine)
• Gaye Mae Kincaid (Sapphowoman and the Greater Belfast Dykes) *
• Yuri Kore (Alison’s Room, ‘The Boy Who Runs from the Sun’)
• Chie Kutsuwada (Story of Lee, Vol 1, Hagakure)
• Danielle Lavigne (Donnie got Laid, “Another Beginning”, in Sancho #5) *
• Hilary Lawler (various work in Longstone Comics, Superhilbo!) *
• Sonia Leong (Romeo and Juliet, Love Stuffing)
• Morag Lewis, (Ambient Rhythm Vol 2, Sun Fish Moon Fish: Fire Fish Story)
• Nana Li (Twelfth Night, story in Rising Stars of Manga – UK & Ireland 3)
• Simone Lia (Monkey and Spoon, Fluffy)
• Sarah Lightman (In Memoriam)
• Ellen Lindner (Undertow)
• Jenny Linn-Cole (work in The Girly Comic, Ghurka Trifle by the Sea)
• Selina Lock (The Girly Comic)
• Lizz Lunney (Tofu and Cats, Party Animals)
• Karen Yumi Lusted (Final Blossom, Super Jax)
• Sinead Lynch (Shinmegami Kate agus na marbh shuile, ‘Rose by any other Name’) *
• Clíodhna Lyons (Comics Foodpedia, Threes) *
• Felicity McCall (The Story of Amelia Earhart) *
• Jenny McDade (Tammy)
• Maura McHugh (Róisín Dubh, Jennifer Wilde) *
• Sarah McIntyre (Vern & Lettuce, Airship)
• Catherine Manson (Gifted Vol 1 & 2)
• Tanya Meditzky (Milk Kitten, The Man Who Clapped)
• Denise Mina (Hellblazer, A Sickness in the Family)
• Leah Moore (Raise the Dead, The Complete Dracula)
• Isy Morgenmuffel (Diary of a Miscreant, Rum-muffel)
• C.E. Murphy (creator-writer of 5-part mini-series Take a Chance) *
• Barbara Nolan (Moya, Me and My Gran) *
• Alma O’Carroll (Redemption’s Fire, Rí-Rá) *
• Denise O’Moore (Spell Maffia, Father Further Investigates) *
• Leonie O’Moore (Some Forgotten Part, Monstrum Horrendum) *
• Sydney Padua (Lovelace and Babbage)
• Caroline Parkinson (Strawberry Ale, Do Not Feed the Bear)
• Rhianna Pratchett (6-part mini-series with DC Comics based on Mirror’s Edge)
• Ruth Redmond (Ponder) *
• Philippa Rice (My Cardboard Life)
• Irina Richards (Chemical Blue, Vol 1)
• Deirdre Ruane (Wasted Epiphanies, Waiting for the Mothership)*
• Tanya Roberts (Star Wars: Clone Wars)
• Hilary Robinson (Chronos Carnival and Medivac 318 in 2000AD)
• Karen Rubins (Blood Magic, 10 Urban Beasts)
• Abby Ryder (2000AD, Demon Tomato)
• Natalie Sandells (work in Nevermore and Devilchild)
• Danusia Schejbal (The Master and Margarita, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
• Lauren Anne Sharp (Quarantined, Sleeping Phoenix)
• Julia Sheels (work in Solipsistic Pop)
• Posy Simmonds (Gemma Bovery,Tamara Drewe)
• Staticgirl (Empires, The Aftermath)
• Vicky Stonebridge (Slaughterman’s Creed, Wild West Wendy)
• Nicola Streeten (Billy, Me & You)
• Brigitte Sutherland (The Adventures of a Homunculus, Peacemaker)
• Carol Swain (Foolboy, Invasion of the Mind Sappers)
• Ai Takita-Lucas (Inko) (work has appeared in Manga Cupcakes and MangaQuake)
• Mary Talbot (Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes)
• Rachel Emily Taylor (“The Pinocchio Syndrome” in London Print Studio anthology)
• Sally Jane Thompson
• Matilda Tristram (work in Solipsistic Pop)
• Suzy Varty (Heroine, RaW)
• Emma Vieceli (Comic Book Tattoo, Violet)
• Laura Watton (Founding member of Sweatdrop Studios, Biomecha)
• Anke Weckmann
• Emma Welch (The Arcaders)
• Faye Yong (Murphy’s Law, The Merchant of Venice)
• Yel Zamor (colourist on ‘The Interactives’, ‘Hero: 9 – 5′)

Those marked with an * are Irish or based in Ireland.

Letterers

• Ellie de Ville (2000AD)
• Nikki Foxrobot (Dick Turpin and The Crimson Plague)
• Annie Parkhouse (2000AD)
• Nic Wilkinson (Cancertown, Slaughterman’s Creed, Indifference Engine)

A sample of comic book industry web sites that are women-friendly.

Resources

• 3 Chicks Review Comics USA podcast
• The Beat
• Colouring Outside the Lines
• The Comic Cast Irish podcast
• DC Women Kicking Ass
• Down the Tubes
• Forbidden Planet Blog
• Girls Who Draw
• Girls Read Comics Too
• Irish Comic News
• Irish Comics Wiki
• Ladies Making Comics
• Laydeez Do Comics
• Sequential Tart
• She Has No Head Column at Comic Book Resources
• Small Press Big Mouth UK podcast
• Solipsistic Pop
• We Are Words and Pictures
• When Fangirls Attack
• Women in Comics Wiki

Regularly scheduled Comic Book events in the UK/Ireland that feature women on the guest list.

Comic Book Events

• 2-D Northern Ireland Comic Book Festival
• Bristol International Comic & Small Press Expo
• British International Comics Show (Birmingham, UK)
• Caption (Oxford, UK)
• Cardiff International Comics Expo
• Comica (London, UK)
• Hi-Ex (Inverness, Scotland)
• Leeds Alternative Comics Fair
• London Comic Con: MCM Expo
• London Comic & Small Press Expo
• Thought Bubble (Leeds, UK)

I’m keeping this list updated regularly. Please leave me a comment, email me or tweet me if there are women omitted from this list. (Last update: Nov 26, 2011)