WPénélope Bagieu is a French illustrator and comic designer. She is best known for her blog BDs My Quite Fascinating Life and Les Culottées. Les Culottées was compiled and released in English as the graphic novel Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, which received widespread recognition. She has also created blog BDs California Dreamin' and Joséphine.
WClaire Bretécher was a French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women and gender issues. Her creations included Les Frustrés, and the unimpressed teenager Agrippine.
WFlorence Cestac is a French cartoonist and former publisher. She is the first woman to have won the prestigious Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, in 2000, and was the only one until Rumiko Takahashi in 2019.
WCorinne Rey is a French cartoonist who publishes under the pen name Coco.
WBernadette Després is a French illustrator and comic book artist.
WIsabelle Émilie de Tessier who worked under the pseudonym Marie Duval, was a French cartoonist, known as co-creator of the seminal cartoon character Ally Sloper.
WAnnie Goetzinger was a comics artist and graphic novelist from Paris, France. From the mid-1970s until her death in 2017, she worked on award-winning graphic novels as well as press cartoons for newspapers such as La Croix and Le Monde. She had a long-standing relationship with comics publisher Dargaud.
WMarion Montaigne is a French cartoonist, known particularly for her popular science comics.
WChantal Montellier, born on August 1, 1947, in Bouthéon near Saint-Étienne in the Loire Department, is a French comics creator and artist, editorial cartoonist, novelist, and painter. As the first female editorial cartoonist in France, she is noted for pioneering women's involvement in comic books.
WFrançoise Mouly is a Paris-born New York-based designer, editor, and publisher. She is best known as co-founder, co-editor, and publisher of the comics and graphics magazine Raw (1980–1991), as the publisher of Raw Books and Toon Books, and since 1993 as the art editor of The New Yorker. Mouly is married to cartoonist Art Spiegelman, and is the mother of writer Nadja Spiegelman.
WColonel Moutarde is a visual artist, popularly known for her comic books and work in the advertising industry.
WCatel Muller, who publishes under the name Catel, is a French comic book artist and illustrator.
WThéa Rojzman is a French comics artist, illustrator, painter and writer.
WRosalys is an illustrator, author, publisher and videographer. She lives in France and in Japan.
WMarjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the comic book Persepolis and its film adaptation, the graphic novel Chicken with Plums, and the film Radioactive.
WVanyda is a comic creator from Lille. She's part of the French comics new wave or La nouvelle manga. Vanyda's first album, The building opposite, premiered in 2005 at the Angoulême International Comics Festival and was ranked Manga of the year 2006 by Publishers Weekly. Vanyda graduated from the Beaux Arts in Tournai (Belgium).