It is a picture-led history of the work of more than 100 named British artists, and a some anonymous ones, documenting 250 years of women’s cartooning and comics in Britain.

[8][9] The Inking Woman book includes for example the Tamara Drewe creator Posy Simmonds, the Women's Liberation Movement and its embrace of cartoonists for example in publications like Spare Rib, Mary Tourtal – the often overlooked creator of Rupert Bear, or the contemporary DIY Cultures Festival in London.

The Inking Woman gives the lie to this myth and brings together for the first time the wealth of talent that has been sitting there hidden in plain sight.

There are now many Laydeez do Comics chapters, with events having appeared in Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Brighton, Glasgow, Dublin, Israel, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and the Czech Republic in the years since its UK debut.

[11] Laydeez Do Comics has also set up a one-day festival, supported by Arts Council England, the first of which took place on 24 March 2018 at the Free Word Centre.