Seeing as I am far too keen a vacation planner, I don’t leave until tomorrow for my Dance with Dragons reading mini-vacation and everything is ready to go, so I decided to polish off the first July numbers. On July 6, 2011, DC released 18 new comics with 153 credited creators, 136 men and 17 women. Here are the percentages:
This is a pretty average number for DC… 11.1% is middle of the road for them. It’s better than their June monthly total, so that’s nice because it’s good to start out a new month a little ahead of the previous one. It breeds optimism… or maybe false hope, since DC tends to start a month well and then collapse towards the end. Let’s look at the numbers by category:
And in chart form:
This was one of those annoying weeks were nearly everything sucked but strong editorial buoyed them up to an average-range total. Cover artists, writers, and inkers all had just one female creator, while pencillers and letterers had none at all. Colourists actually did decent, with a solid 15.8%, while assistant editors had a nice 33.3%, but the big category of the week was editors at 34.8%… that jump counteracted the bad creative categories a fair amount. Ultimately, it was a decent week on the surface, but not so great when you looked underneath.
Notes
- Flashpoint #3 had two female creators, Sandra Hope inking the cover and interiors and Kate Stewart assistant editing. Amusingly, Fear Itself has a similar lady breakdown, with Laura Martin colouring the cover and interiors and Lauren Sankovitch assistant editing. It’s almost like a mirror universe!!
- The busiest book of the week was Looney Tunes #200 with 15 creators, 3 of them women.
- Looney Tunes #200 had the most female creators numerically, but in terms of percentage the top book was iZombie #15 at 2 of 6.
- To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology click here, and to see the previous stats click here.
TIM HANLEY 