WOMEN IN COMICS UK/IRELAND
I’ve created this permanent page from a blog post I wrote in March 2011 called women in comics in uk/ireland – redux.
At the time I recognised that there were still people asking the question “Where are the women working in comics in the UK and Ireland?“, and if you were unable to point them to a single resource with all the names listed, the assumption was that women weren’t active in the industry in significant numbers.
Thus, it occurred to me to establish a list that includes women writers and artists (colourists, inkers, pencilers, etc.) who work in sequential storytelling in the UK and Ireland.
At this point (February, 2012) there are 146 women on the list.
Artists / Writers
- Dani Abram (‘Small World’ in Bayou Arcana, Kitty Hawk Kicks Ass)
- Patrice Aggs (‘The Boss’ strip in DFC, illustrator of 50+ children’s books)
- Erica Akerlund (Knick Their Eyes)
- Asia Alfasi (“JinNarration”, Native Narratives)
- Steff Allan (Team Girl Comic)
- Kate Anderson
- Catherine Anyango (Heart of Darkness)
- Laura Armstrong (Team Girl Comic)
- Kristyna Baczynski (Ladder)
- Badaude (London Walks!)
- Fez Baker (Thrill Electric, Tara Duncan)
- Becky Barnicoat
- Gemma Bedeau (Afrocella)
- Hannah Berry (Britten and Brulightly)
- Katie Blackwood (The Linguistic Goat) *
- Chantal Bourgonje (Fierce Grey Mouse, No-Dogs Allowed)
- Liz Boyle (scripts in FutureQuake)
- Jess Bradley (Milk Town)
- Kate Brown (The Spider Moon, Fish + Chocolate)
- Rebecca Burgess (London Underworld, Illusional Beauty)
- Kit Buss (Thrill Electric, Windflower Studios)
- Coleen Campbell (Team Girl Comic)
- 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)
- Evy Craig (Team Girl Comic)
- Jeremy Day (Whores of Mensa, work in The Girly Comic)
- Deirdre de Barra (work in Longstone Comics, Downpour) *
- Diane Duane (Star Trek: The Manga, Vol 2; Star Trek: The Next Gen, Vol 1) *
- Alice Duke (‘Tell Tale Heart’ in Nevermore)
- Sara Dunkerton (“Red Riding Hood” in Into the Woods, “Promises” in Bayou Arcana)
- Helen Entwisle (Ink + Paper)
- 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) *
- Gill Hatcher (Team Girl Comic)
- Jessica Hatcher (Team Girl Comic)
- Freya Harrison (The Daredevil Monkeys)
- Willie Hewes (Amaranth, founder of ITCH Publishing)
- Mhairí Hislop (Team Girl Comic)
- Robin Hoelzemann (Curia Regis)
- Julia Homersham (Ink + Paper)
- 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) *
- Pearl Kinnear (Team Girl Comic)
- Yuri Kore (Alison’s Room, ‘The Boy Who Runs from the Sun’)
- Chie Kutsuwada (Story of Lee, Vol 1, Hagakure)
- Sue-Yin Lau (Team Girl Comic)
- 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) *
- Emma McLuckie (Team Girl Comic)
- Jenny McDade (Tammy)
- Maura McHugh (Róisín Dubh, Jennifer Wilde) *
- Sarah McIntyre (Vern & Lettuce, Airship)
- Jasmine McPhee (Team Girl Comic)
- Catherine Manson (Gifted Vol 1 & 2)
- Tanya Meditzky (Milk Kitten, The Man Who Clapped)
- Heather Middleton (Team Girl Comic)
- Denise Mina (Hellblazer, A Sickness in the Family)
- Alex Moore (Turning Tiger)
- Karena Moore (Team Girl Comic)
- Leah Moore (Raise the Dead, The Complete Dracula)
- Isy Morgenmuffel (Diary of a Miscreant, Rum-muffel)
- Iona Mowat (Nondo) (Team Girl Comic)
- 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)
- Ellie Partridge (Ink + Paper)
- Katie Pope (Team Girl Comic)
- 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)
- Holly Rose (work in FTL #5, The Shrapnel Case Files)
- Karen Rubins (Blood Magic, 10 Urban Beasts)
- Abby Ryder (2000AD, Demon Tomato)
- Alison Sampson (work in em>Solipsistic Pop issue 4)
- Natalie Sandells (work in Nevermore and Devilchild)
- Julia Scheele (work in Solipsistic Pop, The Peckham Invalids)
- Danusia Schejbal (The Master and Margarita, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
- Lauren Anne Sharp (Quarantined, Sleeping Phoenix)
- Penny Sharp (Team Girl Comic)
- Kat Sicard (Team Girl Comic)
- Posy Simmonds (Gemma Bovery,Tamara Drewe)
- Staticgirl (Empires, The Aftermath)
- Claire J C Stewart (Team Girl Comic)
- Vicky Stonebridge (Slaughterman’s Creed, Wild West Wendy)
- Jude Stoo (Team Girl Comic)
- JL Straw (The Young Sherlock Holmes)
- 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)
- Tammy Taylor (Parafect, Microwavable Fox)
- Sally Jane Thompson
- Matilda Tristram (work in Solipsistic Pop)
- Suzy Varty (Heroine, RaW)
- Emma Vieceli (Comic Book Tattoo, Violet)
- MJ Wallace (Team Girl Comic)
- Laura Watton (Founding member of Sweatdrop Studios, Biomecha)
- Anke Weckmann
- Emma Welch (The Arcaders)
- Marcia Williams (The Canterbury Tales, Archie’s War)
- Claire Yvette (Team Girl Comic)
- 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 email or tweet me if there are women omitted from this list. (Last update: February 28, 2012)




























