DC had a strong showing this week, but Marvel didn’t take it lying down and stepped up their game. On February 9, 2011, Marvel Comics put out 28 new comics featuring 251 creators… 226 of them were men, 25 were women. In pie chart form, they look like this:
As I said in the DC post, these numbers aren’t in and of themselves great. BUT, relatively speaking, this is a really good week for Marvel, so let’s acknowledge that. A 10% pie slice is solidly above average… so far, Marvel hitting double digits has been rare. The numbers break down in some interesting ways too:
And chart up like this:
Let’s start with the big one: FIVE women wrote comics at Marvel that week, for 13.5% of the total writing credits. That’s huge, so good work Laurell K. Hamilton, Jess Ruffner, Robin Furth, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Sarah Cross!! Assistant editing was also a strong category, and while two pencillers isn’t massive, it’s definitely a decent amount. The rest of the numbers are about average, and it all adds up to a better than usual week for Marvel.
Notes:
- Incognito: Bad Influences #3 doesn’t list any editors, so maybe Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips are just going it on their own?
- Secret Warriors #24 credits “IFS” with colouring the book. As best I can figure, IFS is Imaginary Friends Studios, and the 24 staff members listed on their webpage are, so google tells me after a lot of searching, all dudes. Thus, IFS got a tick in the male column.
- The busiest book of the week was Wolverine #1000, with 20 creators!! Four of them were women, the highest numerical total for the week.
- Percentagewise, Anita Blake: Circus of the Damned – The Ingenue #2 was tops for female creators, though Osborn #3 was a close second.
- To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology, click here.
Tags: Marvel, Women In Comics Statistics
