diversity in comics Archives

Tales From The Four Color Closet – Midnighter: The Hero We Need!

By Joe Glass This week has seen the release of the first DC comic headlined by a gay male lead, in the form of Midnighter by Steve Orlando, Aco and Romulo

Gendercrunching February 2015 Including The Eisners – More Women Everywhere! But Wait…

By Tim Hanley It was gains across the board in February, with both DC and Marvel showing some decent growth in overall female creator representation. Then

Is Boom 'Pushing #ComicsForward'? Taking A Look At Cluster, Burning Fields And Feathers

By David Lucarelli In light of Ross Richie’s recent call to “push comics forward,” to a wider audience I thought I’d take a look at a few of the new

Gendercrunching September 2014 – How Futures End Contributed To Low Numbers

By Tim Hanley It was another poor showing in terms of the overall percentage of female creators for both DC and Marvel in September, with DC dropping even

Hero For A Day – The Lament Of A First Time Cosplayer At New York Comic Con

By Timothy Carson I’ve always had this dream that I’d someday be surrounded by a horde of adoring fans, clawing and pushing one another to simply bask in

Tales From The Four Color Closet: Discovering Bakersfield, Earth In The Tumblrzone

By Joe Glass I stumbled across a true delight on Tumblr the other day. In a little corner of the world of procrastination that is Tumblr, I found

Gendercrunching June 2014 – Including Nationality And Ethnicity At The Big Two

By Tim Hanley After posting the higher percentage of female creators for six straight months, DC was finally toppled by Marvel in June. DC took a tumble

Tales From The Four Color Closet – This Week DC Are Really Spoiling Us

By Joe Glass This week sees a lot of great LGBTQ content from DC, the most I can think of coming out from a single publisher in the same week for a while.