This was quite a good week for DC, relatively speaking. DC Comics released 22 new books on February 9, 2011, built by 185 creators. 161 of them were men, 24 were women. They chart up like this, with the biggest slice of pie we’ve seen yet:
It’s a new record!! Not that 13% is mind blowingly fantastic and equality has been achieved in the comic book industry or anything… it’s still very low. But it’s the biggest percentage we’ve had so far, so that’s worth a bit of excitement at least. Let’s break these numbers down into a nice table:
And then into a chart:
There’s a lot of whole numbers this week… it’s sort of weird. So, killer numbers on assistant editing… 50% is awesome. Editors and colorists both put in a solid showing as well, and letterers too. Two letterers may not sound like a lot, but that’s more in one week than Marvel’s had in SIX weeks of comics. The usual poor categories remain poor, with only one writer, penciller, and inker. If you can guess who the writer was, then you win… nothing, because obviously it’s Gail Simone. It always is. But overall, the decent stuff is slightly more decent than usual, and the low stuff is fairly characteristically low.
Notes:
- Assassin’s Creed: The Fall #3 doesn’t credit any letterers or editors. There are credits for “producers” and “universe advisors”, but I don’t have a category for that.
- It was a tie for busiest book of the week, with DC Universe Legacies #9 and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #4 both boasting fourteen creators (three and zero ladies, respectively). That’s a pile of creators for two books no one seems to be buying.
- The book with the most female creators, numerically and percentagewise, was Birds of Prey #9, which CRUSHED every comic we’ve seen so far this year with 5 of 7 creators being gals!!
- Some other books had some solid showings as well… Victorian Undead 2: Holmes vs. Dracula #4 was 3 of 8, while Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #1 was 2 of 7.
- To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology, click here.
Tags: DC, Women In Comics Statistics
