This was a pretty decent week for DC, and solid across the board except for a couple of categories. On July 13, 2011, DC put out 19 new comic books featuring 159 credited creators, 138 men and 21 women. Let’s look at the percentages:
This 13.2% is nicely above average for DC, and keeps them in good shape for the month so far. Next week is the real test, though… DC tends to start well with big numbers the first half of the month, and then crash in the second half. Plus their totals so far in July won’t give them a huge cushion if things start to go bad. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. Here are the numbers by category:
And in chart form:
No writers and only 3.3% for inkers isn’t good at all, but everything else (with the exception of letterers, but we’re used to that now) had a decent week. Only colourists weren’t well above average, and their total was still fairly decent. Cover artists had a big week, hitting double digits, while pencillers fared much better than usual. Editorial was huge too, with massive numbers in both categories. Editorial still carried the bulk of the load, as always with DC, but there was some definite assistance elsewhere for a change this week.
Notes:
- Detective Comics #879 came out this week (2 of 6), and it was really good and creepy. If you aren’t buying this book, you should be… and you should get the new Batman in September. Scott Snyder is writing the best Batman book in YEARS. The last Batman book I can remember being this good was Paul Dini’s early run on Detective Comics after “One Year Later”… then it got all ridiculous for a while.
- The busiest book of the week was Superman #713 with 15 creators, not a one of them a lady. Superman is terrible for female creators… I don’t think there’s been one on the book all year.
- The book with the highest number and percentage of female creators was Birds of Prey #14 at 4 of 9. Gail Simone wasn’t on the book this week, though… Marc Andreyko is stepping in for a couple of issues.
- To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology click here, and to see the previous stats click here.
