There Are Actually LESS Female Characters In The DC Relaunch Than There Are Now

Reading the DC panel reports from ComicCon this weekend, I was disheartened by the responses to questions about women in comics, both in terms of creators and characters.  The questions were either dismissed (snidely, it seemed) or got a joke in response… they really weren’t taken seriously at all.  Several comics news sites have recaps

Sad Stats On Women In Comics

Alexa at Ladies Making Comics has done an interesting assessment of the comic books released in November. She went through the solicits for all major and minor publishers, keeping track of when a woman was listed in the credits.  A solicit states the writer(s) and penciller(s) of an issue, and occasionally the inker(s) as well,