Un-hero Comics by Female Authors/Artists

February 19, 2016 | Patton

In a world where supermen rule comics, video games, and film, we offer a list of graphic novels created by women that range from dark to whimsical and otherworldly to all too similar to everyday life.

Exquisite corpse by Pénélope Bagieu

Zoe looks for escape from her mediocre existence in the arms of a shut-in harboring a big secret.

My dirty dumb eyes : a film by Lisa Hanawalt

A collection of observations and oddities in stunning color.

Are you my mother? : a comic drama by Alison Bechdel

Writer and cartoonist Alison Bechdel writes about her relationship with her mother.

Through the woods by Emily Carroll

Five "spine-tingling" short stories in a style reminiscent of Mary Shelley or Edgar Allen Poe.

Can't we talk about something more pleasant? by Roz Chast

Graphic memoir of the famed New Yorker cartoonist.

Bitch Planet. Book 1, Extraordinary machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick

In a hyper-patriarchy of the future, women are banished to an outer planet for the most mild of infractions. 

Step aside, pops : a Hark! a vagrant collection by Kate Beaton

A collection of historical, literary and pop-culture parodies.

The adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks

The adventures of Superhero Girl, who struggles with her everyday life, battling monsters and aliens, and snarky comments from Skeptical Guy.

Kill My Mother : a graphic novel by Jules Feiffer

The book centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking 1930s private detective.