Encyclopedia of Women in Comics

Lage, Daphne

Spanish-born American cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book artist

Publisher of her own Dream Weaver Press, Lage has been self-publishing comics since 1992 and is best known for creating (with partner Jose Calderon)Tall Tails, a furry fantasy adventure comic serialized (for some time) by Radio Comix's Furrlough and has since been available through Their website Talltailsonline. Their work (The Collected Tall Tails: Thieves' Quest, vol. 1, 1998) was nominated for an Ursa Major Award for Best Other Literary Work.

She is also known for her fantasy drama creation, Egoraven: Heir of the First Unicorn, which is about a half-human daughter of the Unicorn King Alaric named Egoraven, who is the young heiress of an ancient, magically powerful valley ruled jointly between Unicorns and Elves. The comic is available through Lage's online site, Egoworks.

From late 1998-2001, Lage had made a transition from freelance work to illustration and graphic design with various companies, including Scholastic and has also worked on comic book adaptations of La Blue Girl, Demon Beast Invasion and Tenchi Muyo!

Lay, Carol (1952 - )

American alternative cartoonist, comic book artist and writer

Lay is best known for her weekly comic strip, Story Minute (later to evolve into the strip Way Lay), which ran for almost 20 years in such US papers as the LA Weekly, the NY Press, and on Salon. Lay has been drawing professionally for over 30 years. Based in Los Angeles, Lay's strips and illustrations have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Mad, Newsweek, Worth Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker.

After graduating from UCLA, Lay entered the comics industry at DC Comics, Western Publishing, and Eclipse Comics, while simultaneously writing and drawing underground comics for titles such as Weirdo and her own Good Girls #1–6.

Lay's work, including "Story Minute" appeared in alternative newsweeklies during the 1990s.

She is the author of Mythos, a prose novel featuring Wonder Woman (DC/Pocket Books, 2003), Goodnight, Irene: The Collected Stories of Irene Van de Kamp (Last Gasp, 2007), and The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude, a Memoir (Villard, 2008).

From 2010 to 2013, Lay wrote and drew Simpsons stories for Bongo Comics.

Lazer, Molly

American comic book editor and short story writer

Lazer was an assistant editor at Marvel Comics before moving up to Associate Editor from 2004-2008 with . During which time, Lazer worked on such titles as Fantastic Four, Captain America, New Avengers, and cult-favorite Spider-Girl.

She also serves as a professional critiquer for Comics Experience, helping aspiring comic book writers finesse scripts for publication.

In 2016, Molly received a MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College. Her short stories have been featured in numerous literary magazines including Gone Lawn, LIT, and Silver Blade. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and twin sons. Owl Eyes is her first novel.

To learn more about Lazer's career and writing, please follow the link https://www.mollylazer.com/ to her official website.

Leth, Katrina Jade "Kath" (1988 - )

Canadian cartoonist, writer, designer and illustrator

Leth is best known for her work writing on the Marvel Comics' workplace-and-relationship comedy superhero project Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! (2015-2017)

They began publishing comics online in 2011.

They are best known for three volumes of Marvel’s Patsy Walker: AKA Hellcat, IDW’s Edward Scissorhands, original series Spell on Wheels from Dark Horse, as well as the webcomic Valley Ghouls. They’ve worked on everything from Vampirella to Transformers.

If you are interested in their work and career, please follow the link to thos website https://www.kateleth.com to their website.

Lewald, Julia Jane (1958 - )

American writer and producer

Julia and her husband, Eric Lewald were show runners and writers on the X-Men: the Animated Series (1992-1997). And was also a writer on the Men in Black: the Series. They also the authors of X-Men: the Art and Making of the Animated Series (2017). She has had a career of over 250+ produced credits and has been co-runner on 8 series.

Julia was very influential during the show's original run and has writing credits on two episodes. Days of the Future Past part I (March 13, 1993) and Whatever it takes (November 6, 1993).

Currently, she is a consulting producer on Disney+'s X-Men 97'.

Cecilia M. Lim

Waverly Lim

Lim, Cecilia M.

American comic book publisher and attorney

Lim, Waverly

American comic book publisher, executive assistant and productions manager

Cecilia and Waverly are the founders of Kwento Comics in January 2022, which is the world's first all-women, all-Asian comic book company.

Founded by the mother-daughter duo Cecilia and Waverley Lim, its mission is to create stories that introduce Filipino and other Asian mythology to a wider audience through a riveting, contemporary fantasy comic book series.

Their debut comic series was The Mask of Haliya (March 2022), which has since been the company's flagship title. If you would like to see more about Kwento Comics and their mission, please follow the link https://kwentocomics.com/.

Liu, Marjorie M. (1979 - )

American author and comic book writer

She is acclaimed for her horror fantasy comic Monstress, and her paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels including The Hunter Kiss and Tiger Eye series. Her work for Marvel Comics includes NYX, X-23, Dark Wolverine, and Astonishing X-Men. In 2015 Image Comics debuted her creator-owned series Monstress, for which she was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series. In 2017 she won a Hugo Award for the first Monstress trade paperback collection.

In July 2018 she became the first woman in the 30-year history of the Eisner Awards to win the Eisner Award for Best Writer for her work on Monstress, which was published by Image comics, and brings forth a haunted, matriarchal world, inspired by 1900s Asia. It’s heavy on mythology and features a lead with a physical disability.

To learn much more about Liu's work as an author, please follow the link to http://marjoriemliu.com to her official website.

Loth, Pauline (1916-1960)

American comic book artist, inker and animator

Pauline Loth was one of the few U.S. female comic book artists and animators in the 1940s. She worked as an assistant animator for the Fleischer Studios, where she also provided the voice of Honey in their feature film 'Mr. Bug Goes to Town' (1941). When 'Mr. Bug Goes to Town' became both a critical and commercial failure, the Fleischer Studio went bankrupt and was taken over by Paramount.

Loth joined Jack Binder's comics studio in 1942 and drew comics like Superbaby for Timely Comics' subseries Comedy Comics, which was closely associated with Paul Terry's cartoon studio Terrytoons.

In 1944, Loth became the artist of Otto Binder and Al Gabriele's superhero comic Miss America and is credited as the creator of her costume. She was also the fashion editor for the Miss America Magazine, where she used her married name, Pauline O'Sullivan.

Loth also inked Elmer Cecil Stoner's Blackstone, Master Magician for Street & Smith, as well as Bill Parker and C.C. Beck's Captain Marvel and Otto Binder's Captain Midnight for Fawcett.

Loubert, Deni (1951 - )

Canadian comics publisher

Loubert is best known for co-founding Aardvark-Vanaheim Press in 1977 with Dave Sim to publish his work, Cerebus, the longest running independent comic book in history. Determined to let Sim create, Loubert took the business reins and learned publishing from the ground up, forging alliances with printers, writing text pages, overseeing the printing and arranging for now legendary Cerebus tours. Eventually, her love of artists and desire to forge her own identity inspired her to expand the Aardvark-Vanaheim line, publishing early work by Image Comic’s Jim Valentino, Arn Saba, Bob Burden and Max Allen Collins.

From 1984-1989, Loubert founded and ran Renegade Press. She was also Managing Editor at WaRP Graphics, VP of Comic Book Development for Full Moon Entertainment, and spent a year at Paramount Studios revamping Star Trek Comics.

For several years, Loubert worked as an artist representative in Hollywood and Friends of Lulu pamphlet, “How To Get Girls Into Your Store”, and remains a must-read for comic shops.

She received an Inkpot Award in 1987 (given for lifetime achievement in comics at the San Diego Comic-Con) and was inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2010.