I'm glad codystarbuckmentioned Donna Barr and Melinda Gebbie, two real titans of the craft, also interesting that some still call Alan Moore a woman hater for writing rape scenes (even if his most famous one was man to man...), but I thought I'd mention a few more creators :

First is Marjane Satrapi, the iranian-french cartoonist who gained international comic stardom with Persepolis (not the great Xenakis composition). While she still produces comics, she also became a movie director, adapting her multi-award-winning graphic novels and more recently directing Ryan "Deadpool" Reynolds in "The Voices", a surrealistic horror thriller.



Secondly, as the spectrum is large, I though I'd mention the colorist of the best selling direct market title of the past 12 months or so, the incredibly talented June Chung. She started working with whom I believe is her current husband - Jae Lee - but soon proved herself a strong enough voice to stand on her own to helm the biggest mainstream blockbusters and yet keeping her style.

Wow! I'm jealous!  I didn't know you were an artist (unless you changed alias while I was gone).
Anyhow, I have this dream fantasy of her being hired to be the wrier of Wonder Woman, which is pretty much the only thing that would have me buy it on a regular basis (aside from Alan Moore, but that goes without saying...)

Well, Alan Moore is also supremely funny, and he's proven himself at being fairly good at becoming an expert on things he starts to write about.

But as yourself, I would have Donna #1 for this position.
Also, it seems like such an obvious good idea I'm surprised no one has really thought about it yet, or have they?

I just think that after the movie, a WW ongoing by Donna Barr and a rotating team of Jae Lee, Melinda Gebbie and JH Williams III, that would be Eisners till the end of time!

Emma Ríos drew some hauntingly beautiful pages for Pretty Deadly written by Kelly Sue DeConnick. It's a Weird Western with elements of fantasy and horror. I also think Jordie Bellaire is one the best colorists currently working. Check out a preview here.

As much as I like Emma Rios' stuff (and I alike it a lot) her art on the 4 issue Dr.Strange mini written by Mark Waid was underwhelming (I like Mark a lot too, but it was one of the things he's written I liked the least). It's from 2009 and most of Rios' other stuff I have seen was form later, so it could have just been growing pains.

-M

Ok, new reading project.

Looking for long-form narratives. Comics strips are ok, but no Hark a Vagrant or Cathy.

Mainstreamy factory system stuff okay as long as it's written and drawn by women. Pretty Deadly is a good example. (Jem and Holograms, Secret Six.... I can't think of many!)

Bitch Planet gets special exception status because it is called Bitch Planet which epitomizes the spirit of this thing.

I'm not saying no memoirs but I don't want the list to be all memoirs because there are a lot of women doing freaking memoirs and I have read a lot of memoirs and I do not have a memoir shaped hole in my comic loving heart that needs to be filled with more memoirs, and, honestly, indy memoirs could go the hell away for quite a while and I would be perfectly happy.

Some memoirs are ok. I feel I need to (re) read Fun Home, Persepolis because they are such important touchstones.

Staring with, from the library:

1) Wonder Woman the Last Amazon - Jill Thompson
2) Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir - Amy Kurzwell
3) Bitch Planet - Kelly Sue Deconnick
4) My Dirty Dumb Eyes - Lisa Hanawalt
5) La Perdida - Jessica Abel
6) The Property - Rutu Morgan
7) Marbles - Ellen Forney
8) "More" "Invasion of" and "New, Improved" Dykes to Watch Out for - Allison Bechdel
9) Princess Jellyfish - Ahiko Higashimnura