With the release of Snow White, Walt Disney became an international success story, patenting his famous multiplane camera and reinventing animation into a viable format for a feature-length film, except someone else did it first and her name was Lotte Rei

While the surprise success of Guardians of the Galaxy would make James Gunn a household name, it never would have existed if it weren’t for Nicole Perlman, the woman who brought the MCU to the cosmos.

This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney discuss Captain Marvel — the Goose, the bad, and the ugly — and Cher talks to Kelly Sue DeConnick in part one of an interview so good we had to cut in half.

In Black Panther, production designer Hannah Beachler created a world we all wanted to visit in Wakanda, and won an Academy Award for it.

She co-created Spider-Woman and is in the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame. Marie Severin worked as a colorist on so many Marvel and EC titles, it would take hours to discuss them all.

Pauline Hopkins is hailed as one of the most prolific African-American woman writers of the 20th century. She's also considered on of the architects of Afrofuturism, one of the most important cultural movements and subgenres within sci-fi and fantasy.

Japanese actress and singer Meiko Kaji has performed in over 100 films in Japan. But despite never turning her sights on Hollywood her impact is still felt. Most notably it was her starring role in Lady Snowblood that heavily influenced Tarantino's Kill B

Credited as the first female writer to write Wonder Woman, Mindy Newell's writing brought about a much needed change to DC comics in the 80s. But what could have been a long career was cut short due to sexism and harassment.

Quentin Tarantino is hailed as one of the most distinctive storytellers of his generation thanks to his nonlinear style and aesthetic. But everything that gave a Tarantino movie its trademark edge was thanks to his long-time editor, the late Sally Menke.