Women in Comics Appreciation Thread 1 1

[Electricmastro]

A thread about women that you feel deserve appreciation, whether they be comic creators or characters.

[kav]

Sophie Campbell's Wet Moon

[Phicks]

Jeanette Khan took over DC at a point around 1980 when things were so bad DC was considering switching to all reprints, or licensing their characters to Marvel.  She made the hard decisions to get rid of the deadwood that was still writing and drawing as if it was the 1950s.    Soon, Byrne was on Superman, Perez was on Wonder Woman, and Miller's Dark Knight changed the medium forever.

And she hired Karen Berger who guided the DC subgroup Vertigo.  Berger brought along titles like Sandman, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, etc.   Vertigo is no more, and now Berger is editing more great books at smaller publishers.  Check out The Girl Who Could Fly for more Vertigo-ish greatness.

[ADAMANTIUM]

I'm not a history buff, even though my dad taught it in school, I wish there was a comics class

But

Stan Lee's wife deserves the credit for encouraging Stan to use his God given talent on the outlet provided him!

[Robot Man]

I give a big shout to Marie Severin. The only female staffer at EC. She colored all those wonderful covers. Often being the “conscience” to tone down some of them she felt went a little over board. She went on to be a very notable artist in her own right. A strong and very friendly lady with a heck of a lot of talent and moxie. 

[Electricmastro]

Good posts. These are from posts I made in the Rise of the Female Superhero thread, but I figured I might as well share them here:

Mighty Woman from Planet Comics #3 (March 1940, Fiction House). Art by Alex Blum.

Magician from Mars from Amazing-Man Comics #11 (April 1940, Centaur Comics). Art by John Giunta and Michael Mirando.

Woman in Red from Thrilling Comics #5 (June 1940, Nedor Comics). Art by George Mandel.

Blue Lady from Amazing-Man Comics #25 (December 1941, Centaur Comics). Art by Frank Frollo.

Lady Fairplay from Bang-Up Comics #1 (December 1941, Progressive Publications). Art by Jack Ryan.

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Miss Victory from Captain Fearless Comics #1 (August 1941, Tem Publishing). Art by Charles Quinlan.

USA the Spirit of Old Glory from Feature Comics #47 (August 1941, Quality Comics). Art by Maurice Gutwirth.

Wildfire from Smash Comics #27 (October 1941, Quality Comics). Art by Jim Mooney.

Spider Queen from The Eagle #3 (November 1941, Fox Comics). Art by Pierce Rice.

Madame Strange from Great Comics #2 (December 1941, Great Comics Publications). Art by Charles A. Winter.

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Señorita Rio from Fight Comics #21 (October 1942, Fiction House). Art by Nick Viscardi.

Spider Widow from Feature Comics #62 (November 1942, Quality Comics). Art by Frank Borth.

Black Angel from Air Fighters Comics #3 (December 1942, Hillman Periodicals). Art by John Cassone.

Lightning Girl from Four Favorites #8 (December 1942, Ace Comics). Art by Harvey Kurtzman.

Mary Marvel from Captain Marvel Adventures #18 (December 1942, Fawcett Comics). Art by Marc Swayze.

[Ken Aldred]

3 hours ago, Robot Man said:

I give a big shout to Marie Severin. The only female staffer at EC. She colored all those wonderful covers. Often being the “conscience” to tone down some of them she felt went a little over board. She went on to be a very notable artist in her own right. A strong and very friendly lady with a heck of a lot of talent and moxie. 

Severin did the colouring for the interior artwork at EC, as well.

Easily one of the best colourists ever to work in comics.  

As a more contemporary example, I remember looking at her work in Superman Adventures, and thinking that when someone else did the colouring it would suddenly seem a bit garish and mismatched in comparison.

Edited January 9, 2020 by Ken Aldred

[Comics4All]

Louise Simonson! 

Great writer & a fantastic person!

I've met her & Walt many times & they are always a pleasure! 

[Comics4All]

Amanda Conner, Nicola Scott, Natali Sanders, Joyce Chin, Jan Duursema, Jenny Frison , all awesome artists!

Ann Nocenti & Jo Duffy: great writers as well! 

[F For Fake]

3 minutes ago, comics4all said:

Amanda Conner, Nicola Scott, Natali Sanders, Joyce Chin, Jan Duursema, Jenny Frison , all awesome artists!

Ann Nocenti & Jo Duffy: great writers as well! 

I was here to give the Ann Nocenti shout out. I remember seeing her name so often when I started reading Marvel comics, in editorials and as the writer of Daredevil. Then she seemed to disappear. Haven't reread that stuff since I was a kid, but it made an impression.

[Phicks]

I am surprised we have gotten this far without hearing of Gail Simone.   A great writer, whose work I loved on her run with artist John Byrne on Action, and various artists on Secret Six. 

[F For Fake]

Ramona Fradon needs lots of love too!

[KirbyJack]

DC’s Liberty Belle and Mlle. Marie; and one of my very favorite females in all of comicdom, Chance Falconer (Leave It To Chance).

[ADAMANTIUM]

3 hours ago, comics4all said:

Amanda Conner, Nicola Scott, Natali Sanders, Joyce Chin, Jan Duursema, Jenny Frison , all awesome artists!

Ann Nocenti & Jo Duffy: great writers as well! 

This list is AWESOME! Quality work

 

[F For Fake]

Oh, and Sarah Dyer! Probably most well known as being a co-writer on several of Evan Dorkin's projects (i.e. "The House of Fun") she's also a great cartoonist in her own right. I really miss the "Action Girl" anthology series she headed up in the 90's, it was great stuff.

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Serene Summerfield, one of DC's earliest female artists (New Comics #4, March 1936).

[davidtere]

 

Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode wrote the book "Women and the Comics" in 1985 in answer to Maurice Horn's book "Women in the Comics" (1977) which 'disappointed' Cat as stated in her introduction to their book. Cat and Trina dedicated their book to Ruth Roche (a great comic book and comic strip writer). Of course Trina Robbins is a comic legend and one of the most pleasant people that you could ever hope to meet. No thread on Women's appreciation in comics would be complete without them. 

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1 hour ago, F For Fake said:

Ramona Fradon needs lots of love too!

Also a good artist.

From Adventure Comics #167 (August 1951, DC Comics).