Illustrators
Colleen Coover
With art by Colleen Coover, digital/Webcomic, Bandette has won the Eisner Award in 2016 & 2017. Co-created with her husband, writer Paul Tobin, Bandette has garnered Coover considerable attention. Her career didn’t start there, however. Coover has done work for...
Jo Chen
Jo Chen’s cover art is beautifully rendered. Before making a name for herself on the Racer X mini-series, Chen had worked in the Asian comic book market. Her cover work can be seen on Buffy the Vampire Slayer series (Seasons 8 and 9), as well as the Runaways Vol 1...
Joyce Chin
During her career as an artist and colorist, Joyce Chin has worked with all the primary comic book publishers industry. Starting with DC’s Guy Gardner Warrior series, Chin’s list of credits is endless.FOLLOW
Becky Cloonan
If the last few years are any indication, Becky Cloonan’s career has been on an upward trajectory. In a 2015 CBR poll of top female artists and writers, Cloonan made both lists, at #3 and #14, respectively. Only three years earlier, in 2012, she was the first woman to...
June Brigman
In 1984, June Brigman and Louise Simonson created the Power Pack for Marvel Comics. Brigman handled the pencils, and Simonson gave the characters their voices. Brigman had only been involved in comics for a year, having joined AC Comics in 1983, only to move to DC a...
Trina Robbins
Who can say they’ve had a song written about them by Joni Mitchell, knew Jim Morrison, appeared in the documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, written more than a dozen books, and was the very first woman to illustrate Wonder Woman (as well as a pantheon of...
Sarah Andersen
When Sarah Andersen started publishing her webcomic Fangs on Tapas, she couldn’t have known at the time it would lead to a spot on the New York Times Bestseller list under the graphic books category in October 2020. She shouldn’t be surprised. Her webcomic Sarah’s...
Laura Allred
Writer, artist, colorist… Laura Allred can do it all. She is arguably best known for her work as a colorist on some of the most popular titles in the Marvel and DC universes. In 2012 Allred was recognized with the “Best Coloring” Eisner Award.
Marie Severin
EC Comics was a powerhouse back in the 1940s-50s. Much of its catalog after 1950 consisted of dark stories of horror and science fiction. Its last title was published in 1956 due to increasing pressure from the Comic Code Authority and a growing suspicion that it was...
Tarpé Mills
One of the most popular female characters in comics at the start of World War II was Miss Fury. The character, a socialite named Maria Drake, who donned a skintight panther suit to fight crime, was so popular that her name appeared on the nose of three American bomber...