Monday, October 26, 2020

11 women cartoonists THEY love...

From: The GoComics Team 

March is Women's History Month and we wanted to ackowledge some of our great female cartoonists. Enjoy 11 comics from the pioneers like Cathy Guisewite and Jan Eliot to more newcomers like Sarah Andersen and Huda Fahmy. 

https://www.gocomics.com/comics/lists/1722852/11-women-cartoonists-we-love

Cathy Guisewite, Jan Eliot, Lynn Johnston, Georgia Dunn, Dana Simpson, Olivia James, Sarah Andersen, Connie Sun, Huda Fahmy, Chen Weng, and Chuck Mullin.

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I guess I missed this back in March. (See "Best Of"Comic Lists)  At first, I thought GoComics was just spotlighting pioneers, but then they threw in some newcomers, too. Apparently, I'm somewhere in the big middle (19 years/Shoecabbage, 14 years/Frog Applause). I wonder how many other women creators were also around in March... but didn't feel the 💖 love.**😁

Going through the A-Z list, I found the following female creators:

(I hope I didn't miss anyone. I count 59, including myself and the 11 above. I may have miscounted.)

**Joey Alison Sayers, Marguerite Dabaie, Amanda El-Dweek, Lela Lee, Lisa Benson, Pat Chen, Rosemary Mosco, Catana Chetwynd, Jennifer Babcock, Cathy Law, Lorie Ransom, Julie Larson, Melissa Lomax, Megan McKay, Patty LaBan, Cathy Thorne, Signe Wilkinson, Jenny Campbel, Gemma Correll, Maria Scrivan, Christina Stewart, Rebecca Hendin, Dami Lee, Alex Hallatt, Olivia Walch, Bea R., Paige Braddock, Alexis E. Fajardo, Teresa Logan, Carol Lay, Ann Telnaes, Melissa DeJesus, Allison Garwood, Maiji/Mary Huang, Carla Ventresca, Sarah Graley, Shaenon K. Garrity, Jen Sorensen, Christiann MacAuley, Sandra Barthauer, Nicole Hollander, Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons, Angie Bailey, Jackie E. Davis, Kate Ashwin, and Dana Maier.

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