Sometimes we have to ask a question more than once. Natalie reads the comics pages in the Los Angeles Times every morning while she eats breakfast. Recently, in the middle of eating her scrambled eggs and toast, she said this, “There’s only one comic strip that’s by a woman. Why’s that?” She had noticed that only one comic strip –“Stone Soup” by Jan Eliot — (out of 27 comic strips in the Los Angeles Times), is by a female cartoonist. The other 26 are both drawn and written by men. Her question sounded disconcertingly familiar. In 1991, I made a documentary film about women cartoonists, which won many awards, screened across the country, and…