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Dorothy McKay

Humorous illustrator and cartoonist for such magazines as Esquire, the New Yorker, Life, and Colliers.

Edwina Dumm

Beginning as a daily in 1918, her comic was expanded with a Sunday feature that ran from 1938 to 1963.

Cathy Guisewite

Debuting in 1976, Cathy Guisewite’s unapologetically autobiographical strip addressed romance, marriage, family relationships, pets, food, and work

Dale Messick

Messick’s Brenda Starr was a worthy female counterpart to male heroes marked a milestone among comics by women. At its peak, the strip ran in 250 newspapers.

In her comic that revolves around single black female characters, Brandon-Croft presents spirited, sometimes heated discussions addressing issues of race, identity, and relationships—topics atypical of most strips in the 1990s. Her work debuted in the Detroit Free Press in 1989 and in 1991 she became the first nationally syndicated black female cartoonist.

Barbara Shermund

A frequent contributor to the New Yorker, Esquire, Life, and other mainstream magazines of the day, she revealed a feminist attitude in her portrayals of women in atypical situations, yet did not avoid poking fun at women’s behavior in her work.

Blanche Grambs

American printmaker and social activist

Carol Tyler

Comic artist Carol Tyler came of age during the underground comix movement in San Francisco

Anne Harriet Fish

Designing more than 30 cover designs for Vanity Fair, Fish also created elegant cartoon, caricature, and illustration drawings that were published in other magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan.