Althea Gyles
Irish poet and artist
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Roz Chast
One of the leading cartoonists for the New Yorker, since 1978 she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine.
Signe Wilkinson
As her cartoons for Ms. Magazine in the 1980s demonstrate, Signe Wilkinson addressed women’s issues early in her career.
Raina Telgemeier
American comic artist
Roberta MacDonald
Unlike many cartoonists at that time, she depicted women in the military and other jobs.
Rose O’Neill
Rose Cecil O’Neill was a self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.
Marjorie Henderson Buell
Marge Henderson Buell debuted her comic Little Lulu in 1935 in the Saturday Evening Post, where it became a hit and ran until 1944.
Lydia Nadejena
Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator
Lynn Johnston
Since 1979, when For Better or For Worse first appeared, Canadian artist Lynn Johnston (b. 1947) has been chronicling the lives of the Patterson family
Mabel Dwight
After years of successful work as an illustrator in New York, she began making lithographs in 1927, at the age of fifty-two. In 1933 she participated with the Contemporary Print Group in creating two influential portfolios of realist prints.