Women at Marvel Comics Watch – March 2016 Solicits, 27 Women on 21 Books

Continuing our upbeat start to the New Year, here are some more marginally decent numbers for female creators from a major comics publisher! These aren’t bananas high numbers or anything like that, just better than they’ve been. The room to grow remains ENORMOUS. Nonetheless, it’s Marvel’s best month in some time, and that is nice

Women At Marvel Comics Watch – February 2016 Solicits: 18 Women On 15 Books

After two consecutive months with 20 or more different female creators, Marvel is set to take a slight step back in February. It’s not a terrible tumble, but any month with fewer than 20 female creators these days is a poor showing for either DC or Marvel; they put out so many books with so

Women At Marvel Comics Watch – January 2016 Solicits: 20 Women On 14 Books

Marvel’s December solicits were abnormally good in terms of female creator representation, and I was curious to see if they would maintain their high total in January or fall back into their old, lower range. What actually happened was a little bit of both. Marvel’s down from their December total but up from their November

Women At Marvel Comics Watch – December 2015 Solicits: 24 Women On 19 Books

For the first time in so long that I can’t even remember when this happened last, Marvel has more female creators in their solicits for a given month than DC. DC has had the better numbers for ages, but since their mini-relaunch in June their totals have dropped considerably. Marvel’s been up and down over

Women At Marvel Comics Watch – November 2015 Solicits: 16 Female Creators On 10 Books

Marvel really had nowhere to go but up after their dismal showing for female creators in October, and I’m glad to report that their November numbers are better. Far from good, but definitely better. It’s an odd situation indeed when a publisher can nearly double the number of female creators they hire and still remain

Women At Marvel Comics Watch – September 2015 Solicits: 13 Different Female Creators On 11 Different Comics

I’m not entirely sure why, but a lot of books are missing in Marvel’s September solicits. I’m guessing it’s partly due to Secret Wars running a little bit late and pushing tie-ins back, and partly due to regular series wrapping up in advance of Marvel’s big upcoming revamp. Whatever the case, the lack of several

Women At DC Comics Watch – July 2014 Solicits

July should be very busy for female creators at DC Comics, largely due to Vertigo but there’s some solid representation on the superhero side of things as well. It’s not a bad month for female characters either, so all together July is looking like one of DC’s better months. Let’s go through the solicits: For