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.

Update: for a comprehensive overview of the history of women who have worked in the comic book industry in the UK read The Inking Woman, edited by Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate, published by Myriad.

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)