Gamble, Merna (1910-2013)
American writer
The first female writer with a significant serialized feature under National Comics, Gamble wrote and illustrated an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities from 1936-1938 in New Comics #4-11 and continuing as New Adventure Comics #12-25.
Gameiro, Raquel Roque (1889-1970)
Portuguese illustrator and watercolourist
Raquel Roque Gameiro Ottolini was the daughter of famous Portuguese artist Alfredo Roque Gameiro and later became one of the most important Portuguese female illustrators and watercolor artists in the country's history. In the 1920s, her illustrations and comic works were published in the magazine Ilustraçao.
She exhibited her paintings at Lisbon's Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes from 1909, receiving the SNBA watercolor medal in 1929
She received several awards from the National Society of Fine Arts, where she was first exhibited. She also won the Ex-Libris competition of the National Press Library, held in 1927 as part of the first Exhibition of National and Foreign Ex-Libris.
She illustrated numerous works, some of which were for children, and from the 1920s onwards, she collaborated with magazines and newspapers such as Domingo Ilustrado, ABC-zinho, Diário de Notícias, O Século, and O Mosquito.
Gaines, Evelyn
American writer
Niece to one of the founding fathers of comic books, All-American Publications/EC Comics founder Max Gaines, Evelyn Gaines would be the first female writer on characters still featured in the DC Universe today. Writing for All-American Comics, Sensation Comics and All-Star Comics #3-5 between 1940 and 1944, she contributed features for some of All-American’s flagship characters including Johnny Thunder and Little Boy Blue.
Also credited as Lynn Lovelace and Lynne Evans, Gaines was a writer for All-American Publications, one of the studios which supplied DC Comics with their stories. She wrote such features as Hop Harrigan, Little Boy Blue, and Mr. Terrific.
Ganucheau, Paulina
American comic artist and illustrator
Ganucheau is the co-creator of Zodiac Starforce (Image Comics; 2015) and Another Castle (Oni Press; 2022) as well as the creator of her first solo graphic novel, Lemon Bird: Can Help! (Random House Graphic; 2022).
She is also the artist on She-ra: Legend of the Fire Princess (Scholastic; 2020),Wonder Woman: The Adventures of Young Diana (DC Comics; 2024) and The PowerPuff Girls (Dynamite Entertainment; 2025) which she took over writing duties on from Kelly Thompson on issues 4-6.
Currently, Ganucheau's second solo graphic novel, Flora was announced by First Second in 2025 and will come out in the next few years.
Ganucheau's career and art can be found on her official website https://paulinaganucheau.com/.
Garbowska, Agnes
Polish-Canadian comic book writer, artist and illustrator
Garbowska is best known for her comic work on DC Super Hero Girls, My Little Pony, and Teen Titans Go. She also provided three covers and was one of the contributing artists to the first Outrageous Annual in 2015.
Garbowska has worked with many major comic book publishers. Her credits include My Little Ponies, Care Bears, and Jem and the Holograms for IDW Publishing, Grumpy Cat, Boo: the World's Cutest Dog and Li'l Vampi for Dynamite Entertainment, Sonic Universe Off-Panel Strips for Archie Comics, andVictories for Dark Horse Comics. She also contributed work for Girl Comics and Spider-Ham 25th Anniversary Special published Marvel Comics and The Adventure of Ernie published Aspen Comics.
In 2022, Garbowska illustrated the graphic novel Kenzie's Kingdom published by Vault Comics and written by Shea Fontana. Kenzie's Kingdom is a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who steps into her own power to save the day (and a time-traveling squire) – and to claim her own definition of queendom.
If you want to learn more about Garbowska's career please visit the link https://agnesgarbowska.com/ to her official website.
Gebbie, Melinda (1947 - )
American comic book artist and writer
Gebbie is best known for her participation in the underground comix movement. She is also known for creating the controversial work Fresca Zizis and her contributions to Wimmen's Comix, as well as her work with her husband Alan Moore on the three-volume graphic novel Lost Girls and the Tomorrow Stories anthology series.
Melinda Gebbie contributed her first comic strip to Wimmen's Comix #3, the inceptive all-women anthology published by Last Gasp. She wrote and drew short stories for Wimmen's Comix and many other anthologies, including Tits & Clits Comix, Wet Satin, and Anarchy Comics. In 1977 she completed her own solo comic book, Fresca Zizis, which was later banned in Britain in 1985 for obscenity, and still is to this day.
In 1984, she moved to England to work on the animated film adaptation of Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows. Following this, she worked in a variety of illustration and office jobs and continued making short stories for anthologies such as Strip AIDS and Heartbreak Hotel. In the early 1990s, Alan Moore and Gebbie began collaborating on Lost Girls, a story in which the female protagonists of Peter and Wendy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz meet and share sexual stories and experiences. Moore wrote the story, and Gebbie illustrated it. The story was finished in 2006. Meanwhile, she and Moore created Cobweb, a mysterious heroine who appeared in twelve issues of the Moore-written anthology Tomorrow Stories between 1999 and 2002.
Geerling, Renae (1974 - )
American singer, writer, film producer, and comics editor
Geerlings became an editor for Top Cow Comics in 1996, working on various titles such as Battle of the Planets, Tomb Raider, No Honor, and Witchblade. She also edited the crossover comic Overkill: Witchblade/Aliens/Darkness/Predator for Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics and Top Cow Productions in 1999. in 2006, she was promoted to Editor-in-Chief at Top Cow before leaving the company the following year. She currently works at Darby Pop Publishing.
In 2005, she appeared in a segment of America's Most Wanted followed by a role in the short film, Blame (2006).
In 2009, she appeared as Deputy Gwynne in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween II (2009). In 2010, she and her husband launched the production company, Mane Entertainment. She stars as Juliette in their first feature, the supernatural thriller Compound Fracture, released in 2013. She will next be seen as Precious in their follow-up film, Penance Lane.
Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk 김 금숙 (1971 - )
South Korean comic book artist and translator
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim is renowned for redefining the graphic novel genre with her visual exploration of emotions; she has also become one of the most widely read South Korean authors in recent years.
Her mixture of intimate narrative and historical memory is always articulated from a feminine perspective, using direct and delicate lines. Gendry-Kim originally started a part-time job translating Korean comics into French, where she developed her interest in the genre. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim has translated about a hundred graphic novels.
Gendry-Kim has cartooned the graphic novels Grass, The Waiting, La saison des pluies, Jiseul, Jun, The Naked Tree, and Alexandra Kim, a Woman of Siberia; the autobiographical comic The Song of My Father; the three-volume children’s comic Coquinette; the picture books The Baby Hanyeo Okrang Goes to Dokdo and A Day with My Grandpa; and the children’s book My Mother Kang Geumsun.
Grass (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019) appeared on Best of the Year lists from the New York Times and the Guardian, and received the Cartoonist Studio Prize for the Best Print Comic of the Year, the Big Other Book Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2019, the Harvey Award for Best International Book, and the Krause Essay Prize in 2020.
Gfrörer, Julia (1982 - )
American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator and author
Gfrörer's work is often transgressive, invoking occult themes within an ambience of subtly observed historicist concerns, in narratives generally characterized by "mumblecore" dialogue, persistent overtones of horror and suffering, and unapologetic sexuality." Her first full-length novel, Flesh & Bone (2010), was nominated for an Ignatz Award for outstanding achievement in the form, and was excerpted in The Best American Comics (2010) anthology shortly after.
After experimenting with self-publishing and working with a number of smaller presses (Sparkplug, Study Group etc.), Gfrörer's second graphic novella, Black Is The Color, was published at Fantagraphics after being digitally serialized on the Study Group Comics website. Fantagraphics published her book about the Black Death, Laid Waste, in 2016 which was released to general critical acclaim.
Gfrörer appeared in Fantagraphics' Next Wave panel alongside colleagues Simon Hanselmann, Anya Davidson, Benjamin Marra, and Noah Van Sciver in 2016. She's also presented at PEN America's "Transcendent Obscenity" panel, and at the Parsons School of Art & Design while teaching workshops at SAW and exhibiting work at MoCCA and elsewhere.
While Fantagraphics publishes Gfrörer's major works, she continues to publish shorter works and collaborations under her own imprint, Thuban Press. In 2016, Thuban published No End Will Be Found, a harrowing novella set during the Würzburg witch trials by author Gretchen Felker-Martin whose work continues to appear under the imprint.
Gfrörer has been twice nominated for the Ignatz Award and twice featured as a contributor in Best American Comics.
Gill, Tatiana (1975 - )
American cartoonist
Tatiana Gill is a cartoonist whose work focuses on public health issues including mental health, abortion, harm reduction, homelessness, and fat positivity. She has been drawing comics since early childhood and self-publishing her own comic books since the 1990s. The majority of her work is autobiographical, drawn simply with a stark and evocative brush line. Often her comics depict strong and complex emotions in visual metaphors. She draws manually with a brush pen, edits and colors digitally, and hand-letters. Gill has 9 self-published comic books in print, the most recent are Withdrawings, Living in the Pandemic, Disabused, and Head Meds.
In addition to personal work, Gill has made comics and illustrations for multiple organizations, periodicals, and anthologies. In 2022 she illustrated the graphic novel My Mom Had An Abortion. In the mid 2000s she illustrated 2 graphic novellas published by Alternative Comics, Pictures of You and A Strange Day. She has collaborated on multiple projects with public health organizations including Seattle/King County Health Department, Shout Your Abortion, and People's Harm Reduction Alliance. She's created regular comic strips for the Seattle Weekly and Capitol HIll Blog, and has a monthly strip in Real Change News. In her comics journalism work Gill's drawing style is more detailed and realistic, while maintaining a handcrafted brush line.
To learn more about Tatiana Gill's incredible work and career, please follow the link https://www.tatianagill.com/ to her official website.
Gillim, Dorothea (1964 - )
American Television Producer
Gillim has led kids’ media productions at GBH for almost fifteen years, beginning with the Emmy award-winning PBS KIDS series Curious George. She currently oversees all projects in production and development, including the PBS KIDS podcast Keyshawn Solves It as well as Molly of Denali, which has won a Peabody, Television Critics, and Kidscreen Award.
She began her television career as a writer/audio editor on the Peabody Award-winning series Dr. Katz for Comedy Central. Dorothea went on to produce Science Court for ABC Saturday Morning and Time Warp Trio for Discovery Kids before creating her first animated comedy, Hey Monie, for Oxygen/BET.
In 2006 she created WordGirl for PBS KIDS, winner of four Emmys and a Television Critics Association Award. WordGirl was created to respond to "the idea that children's television wasn't intelligent enough," feeling that most shows "underestimated their sense of humor and their intellect."
In 2022, Collider praised the show for its "non-white, little girl superhero" protagonist, claiming it started a female superhero trend and the generation who grew up watching WordGirl later demanded new and diverse Marvel heroes such as Captain Marvel.
Gillim's co-created animation series Molly of Denali has been celebrated as "the nation's first widely distributed children's program featuring an Alaska Native as the lead character."
Gloeckner, Phoebe (1960 - )
American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist
Gloeckner worked prolifically as a medical illustrator from 1988, and her training is evident in her paintings and comics art, which are highly detailed and often prominently feature the human body. Her first prominent work in fiction publishing, a series of illustrations for the RE/Search edition of J. G. Ballard's novel The Atrocity Exhibition, used clinical images of internal anatomy, sex, and physical trauma in ambiguous and evocative combinations.
Her early comics work, in the form of short stories published in a variety of underground anthologies including Wimmen's Comix, Weirdo, Young Lust, and Twisted Sisters, and in the tabloid zine, RE/Search (numbered volumes), was sporadic and rarely seen until the 1998 release of the collection A Child's Life and Other Stories. This was followed by her 2002 graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, which revisited the troubled life of the young character (usually referred to as "Minnie Goetze") previously featured in some of her comics, this time in an unusual combination of prose, illustration, and short comics scenes.
Golden, Betsy M "The Third G"
American comic book editor and colorist
Golden, who also goes by Betsy Gonia, is probably best known for her colorist duties on Witchblade and as the Editor for Top Cow Productions from 2013-2016
Golden's career first began when she interned with Top Cow over the summer of 2011 between her junior and senior years of college at Savannah College of Art and Design. During the spring of 2012, she moved out to Los Angeles where she once again interned for Top Cow and continued through the summer after graduating where she was then hired by Matt Hawkins as a production assistant.
When Top Cow was looking for a new colorist for their Witchblade title, Golden showed interest and colored Laura Braga’s test pages. She sent her sample pages to Laura to get her opinion and feedback, and based off of Laura’s critiques, she developed the coloring style used in Witchblade #170. Once they figured out that style, Golden sent the pages to Matt Hawkins and Marc Silvestri for review, and they both agreed to let her color the book.
After completing work on the coloring duties for Witchblade, Golden was promoted to Editor in 2013. During the next three years she presided over such titles as Bushido, Aphrodite IX, Artifacts, Magdalena: Seventh Sacrament, and Witchblade.
In 2017, she was hired at DC Comics as a Temporary Associate Editor for five months until she became a Production Administrator for two years.
In 2020, Golden became Data Asset Manager at DC Comics where she currently resides today.
Her official website https://betsygonia.squarespace.com/ shows many of the pages she's colored.
Golightly, Holly K. (1964 - )
American comic book artist, writer, penciller, letterer, and colorist
Holly G! and husband Jim Balent operate the BroadSword Comics publishing company, known for its Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose comic book where she is the colorist as well haven been the model for Tarot herself. Under this company. Currently, Holly only does lettering and production for the Tarot comic.
She has published Fears and Ears: A Travel Guide to Orlando as well as numerous art books of her own work.
Holly frequently draws one-page stories featuring her cat, Pangur Ban. A collection of these stories was published through Kickstarter in 2015.
Holly Golightly entered the comics industry in the 1990s under the pen name Fauve, doing work for the Carnal Comics title True Stories of Adult Film Stars, including three issues on Sarah-Jane Hamilton (one of which sported her first published cover illustration) and stories featuring Julia Ann, Janine Lindemulder, and Lilli Xene. Golightly names artist Frank Thorne as her "hero" for his work on Red Sonja. Golightly's list of work ranges from Nightmare Theatre for Chaos! Comics to Sabrina for Archie Comics to her creator-owned work such as Vampfire and School Bites, which she is working on a new issue of. Holly is currently working for Archie Comics again.
If you want to learn more about Holly G and her incredible work, please follow the link www.hollysheart.net to her own official website.
To learn more about Holly G!'s Tarot comic and the works published by Broadsword Comics, please folllow this link https://www.jimbalentstudios.com to this website.
Gouvea, Franci
Brazilian comic book colorist
Gouvea started working in comics in 2022 and has done extensive work as a colorist on many creator-owned indie projects in the comic book industry.
Her body of work includes two covers, one official and one variant, on the Saint Christopher comic, some pages of Horse Power #1, Gifford Roberts' Dynamic Rodent #'s 2 & 3, colors for Kyle Roland's Obsidian Chrome #1, Vesper Aeon's Black Mariah, and coloring on some pinups of the original character Kaeli by writer Awet M.
She has also worked on three issues of Wild West by writer Ajay, the story "Ambers" was made to promote the handcrafted perfumes he produces, the issues are distributed along with the perfumes, and it tells the story of revenge and redemption of the Midnight Rider character.
She is currently involved in three projects with Brian Sanchez: Strikebuster, which is about a humble fisherman who was chosen to pilot a giant robot; The Puff, which is set in the 90s and has some gangs; And the third is a project with a team of 7 superheroes.
If you would like to learn more about Franci, please follow the link https://www.behance.net/francinecolors to her behanced profile.
Goux, Nicole
American cartoonist and cartoonist
Goux is an Eisner Award nominated illustrator known as the co-creator of Fuck Off Squad (2018, Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) and Forest Hills Bootleg Society (2022, Simon and Schuster: Atheneaum) both with Dave Baker. She has also been the artist of DC's Shadow of the Batgirl (2020) and, most recently, worked with Mariko Tamaki on the graphic novel This Place Kills Me (2025, Abrams Fanfare).
Published by DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Oni and Avery Hill, Nicole's work often explores the themes of coming of age, interpersonal drama, and learning how to be a human.
If you would like to learn more about Nicole Goux and her marvelous career, please follow the link https://www.nicolegoux.com/ to her official website.
Grammer, Jane Krom (1920-2012)
American comic book artist, painter, jeweler, and photographer
Grammer was one of the earliest women working as an artist during the Golden Age of comics in the 1940s. She may be best remembered for her feature Dotty in Supersnipe comics by Street & Smith Publications (whose president was Allen L. Grammer, Jane Krom's father-in-law). There were a total of ten of the Dotty stories that appeared in these comics from June 1945 to Febuary 1947.
The Dotty stories feature the titular character, a young dark-haired girl who is equal parts mischievous and clever. Her best friend Rhona is often a foil in the stories, which revolve around quintessential childhood problems such as making one’s allowance go further. They are gentle, droll stories, where the adventure lay in the mundane.
The credit for this history and information being documented is given to comic scholar, Carol T. Tilley and Jane Krom's daughter, Barrie Schindler.
Grayson, Devin K. (1970 - )
American comic book writer
Grayson is best known for being the first woman to create, launch and write a new, ongoing monthly Batman series for DC Comics Batman: Gotham Knights in 2000.
Other titles Grayson has written for DC Comics has been Batman Plus Arsenal #1, Catwoman, Teen Titans, Nightwing, and contributing to the award-winning No Man’s Land story arc.
Additional career highlights include the launch of the critically acclaimed series Omni for Humanoids, Doctor Strange: The Fate of Dreams, an original novel featuring Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme, and USER - a highly personal three-part, creator-owned miniseries about gender identity and online role-playing, originally published by Vertigo and newly available as a collected edition hardcover through Image.
Devin is also the creator of Yelena Belova, a Marvel character played by Florence Pugh, currently starring in the MCU's Thunderbolts, as well as Damien Darhk, a DC character appearing regularly in CW’s Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow (played by Neal McDonough), and Catalina Flores, a DC character featured as the super-villain Tarantula in The Lego Batman Movie.
If you are interested in Grayson's career, please follow this link https://www.devingrayson.net/ to her official website.
Gudsnuk, Kristen
American comic book artist and writer
Gudsnuk is the creator of the webcomic Henchgirl and is best known as the creator of the graphic novel series Making Friends, an IndieBound bestseller and YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens selection.
Gudsnuk started work on Henchgirl in May 2013 and began publishing it online in June 2013. After starting to attend conventions and self-publishing some physical copies, she met an employee of Scout Comics at New York City Comic Con in 2014, and Scout Comics subsequently picked up Henchgirl and printed it as issues. A trade paperback collecting the whole story was printed by Dark Horse Comics in 2017; a second edition was published in 2020 with an additional story . Since 2016, Henchgirl was no longer available online since it was now available on printed media.
In 2018, Scholastic began publishing Gudsnuk's graphic novel series Making Friends which is about a girl named Danielle who, feeling lost in a new school, inherits a magic sketchbook from her great-aunt that brings her drawings to life, leading her to sketch the "perfect" best friend, Madison, but she soon learns that even a created friend can be difficult to keep. The book explores themes of friendship, creativity, and the challenges of middle school, and is aimed at middle-grade readers.
The series was published in four books; Making Friends (2018), Making Friends: Back to the Drawing Board (2019), Making Friends: Third Time's a Charm (2021) and Making Friends: Together Forever (2024).
Guerra, Pia
American-born Canadian comic book artist and editorial cartoonist
Guerra is best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man. She has worked in the comics industry since the 1990s, and has also contributed to Doctor Who: The Forgotten, along with DC and Marvel comics. Guerra regularly does cartoons for The New Yorker, MAD Magazine and The Nib. She is the author of the Image Comics editorial cartoon book, Me The People.
If you want to learn more about Guerra's work, please follow this link https://www.hellkitty.com/ to her own website.
Guisewite, Cathy (1950 - )
American Cartoonist
Guisewite is internationally renowned as the creator of the comic strip, Cathy, which focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups."
After college, Guisewite followed her father's vocation and began working in advertising at Campbell-Ewald, then Norman Prady, and settled at W.B. Doner & Co. near Detroit. She became a vice president of the firm in 1976.
She continued to draw funny pictures as an "emotional coping mechanism" to events in her life and work, and she would forward them to her parents. Her mother kept urging her to send them to a publisher, so she did. "My entire goal with my submission package was to get my mother off my back. My goal was not to do a comic strip. It was to make Mom quit telling me I could do a comic strip."
Guisewite was flabbergasted when the company sent her a contract to produce a comic strip. Cathy was syndicated to 66 newspapers in 1976 by Universal Press Syndicate, now Universal Uclick, and Guisewite did both—her advertising job during the day, and comics at night. By 1980, the strip was carried by 150 dailies, she was earning $50,000 per year for Cathy, she quit the advertising business to work on Cathy full-time, and she moved to Santa Barbara, California.
The comic strip was a "running social commentary" for her confusion. Guisewite explained, "You were a liberated woman or you were a traditionalist. To even voice vulnerability if you were a feminist was wrong and to voice interest in liberation if you were a more traditional woman was wrong. So I believe the women I was speaking to in the early years of my strip were women like me, who were at that age in our 20s where we were kind of launched into adulthood with a foot in both worlds and no way to really express it.”
At the peak of the strip's popularity in the mid-1990s, it appeared in almost 1,400 papers. However, on August 11, 2010, Guisewite announced the strip's retirement after 34 years. Its run ended on October 3, 2010 (a Sunday strip).
To learn more about Cathy Guisewite and her career, please follow the link https://www.cathyguisewite.com/ to her official website.
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