It was a really good week for DC in some respects, but kind of an irksome week in others. DC tends to roll that way. On November 16, 2011, DC Comics put out 19 new comic books with 156 credited creators, 135 men and 21 women. Here is their overall percentage:
So that’s the really good part… 13.5% is a nice big number, and a bigger slice of pie than DC’s been seeing lately. Well done there, DC. I’m glad they’re making a race of it with Marvel. However, by category they’re not so great:
Which you can also see in the chart:
Editorial carried the week, as always. Those are great numbers for both editorial categories, and colourists are high as well, but there were no female writers, pencillers, or inkers. Again. Putting up an above average percentage overall is really nice, but when it breaks down like this and there are so few ladies actually making comics and doing the nuts and bolts work, the overall number looks a little less impressive. But hey, there was a female letterer!! Saida Temofonte is back, lettering it up on End of Nations #1.
Notes:
- What a sweet week this was… Batman AND Wonder Woman both came out this week. I’d say those are DC’s two best books, really, so that’s fun to get them both at once.
- It was a tie for busiest book of the week between Batman #3 and Justice League #3 at 12 creators each, 1 and 0 women respectively.
- The book with the highest percentage of female creators was Birds of Prey #3 at 4 of 7.
- To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology click here, and to see the previous stats click here.
TIM HANLEY 