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Rhea Ewing's debut graphic novel Fine: A Comic About Gender will be published by Liveright in Apr 2021, Based on interviews of 56 different people throughout the US, Ewing states that the book resists the urge to oversimplify, and you will find no handy charts or graphs to summarize a person's experience of gender Instead,[...]

By John Odum reporting from NYCC The "Women and Gender Nonconforming Writers of Color in Digital Media" panel (featuring Jennifer Baker of We Need Diverse Books, Bustle editor Cristina Arreola, New York writer Christina Tesoro, Jamie Broadnax of Black Girl Nerds, and Travel blogger Bani Amor) provided as interesting a window into the digital media market[...]

By Tim Hanley It's a record setting month here at "Gendercrunching", with both DC and Marvel posting strong numbers that added up to the best combined overall percentage of female creators we've seen from the Big Two in a regular month We also take a look at what's so special about these totals, and whether it's[...]

I don't care what gender or colour the creators of my comic are as long as they are good It shouldn't matter! 2 This is pure reverse-racism in action What am I, as a struggling white male creator supposed to do now? 3 If more women and non-whites wanted to work in comics, they should apply Hardly[...]

While it's a positive sign that representation is improving in both gender and ethnicity, nothing has changed dramatically and even the occasional spot of notable growth still lags far behind the dominant category These comic book publishers are making strides for diversity so much as tiny little steps. To learn more about this statistics project and[...]

By Tim Hanley With all of DC's new titles and revamped returning books now released, it's time for a special edition of "Gendercrunching" to examine how #DCYou fared with female creators The result, relative to the past few years of the New 52: not too bad And when you're talking about women in comics statistics, "not[...]

Fandom is Heading Toward Gender Parity Overall, response to the survey broke down 55/45 male/female Respondents age 30 and over broke 60/40 male. For respondents under 30 (about 45% of the sample), the split was exactly even at 50/50. Some fandoms are more gender-balanced than others Videogame superfans tend to be male by 65/35; among comics superfans, the response[...]

Ex-DC and Disney comics editor, Janelle Asselin, has written six strips entitled Don't Be A Dick, each drawn by a different artist for Bitch Magazine, about the vagaries of the comic book industry around gender and racial politics. Here is but a small clip of the new strip, drawn by Sarah Benkin based on comics marketing, encompassing *that* Image[...]

Diversity is an important component in any creative field, and the Big Two are slightly more diverse this year, both in terms of ethnicity and gender; the overall percentage of solicited female creators rose 1.6% as well Now, while it's fun to stick it to the white man (full disclosure: I am a white man)[...]

Bill Meeks, our Senior Dragon*Conrespondent writes; On Sunday in Atlanta, GA, Jane Espenson (along with her Husbands co-writer Brad Bell) talked about the Husbands comedy series and comic book, Once Upon A Time, Caprica, and the roles of gender and sexuality in media.  [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYAAD47zt2E[/youtube]   [...]

Nice big massive spoilers for today's Fearless Defenders. Because they've created a rather interesting set up today. From next issue's solicitations, "New

Hey! The Gender in Comics panel has no men on it!! I shall wait for internet outrage ! — Stephen Wacker (@StephenWacker) July 13, 2013 It does, after all, say "gender" in the headline And last time I checked, "male" was a gender. Thursday, July 18 • 1:00pm – 2:00pm  Gender in Comic Books Join Ball State University professor[...]

Tim Hanley writes; Both publishers were up slightly in November, with Marvel retaining the top spot while DC had one of their best weeks in some time. We

This drop in assistant editors brought them down overall, but it's good to see more female creators getting work on the creative side.   Compared to a Year Ago: In October 2011, Marvel was at 11% female creators, so they're up 1.4% from then.   MARVEL NOW! AND THE NEW 52 CHARACTERS BY GENDER   Marvel NOW! appears to be winding[...]

It's not enough that I wage a battle of the sexes each month, now I've got to start a race war too? Shame on me. Actually, these numbers are really interesting, especially compared to the gender stats People have been asking about ethnicity in the comments for a while now, and the results were surprising in[...]

Jemisen, who comes from the world of fantasy fiction, explained that in fantasy race is more of an issue than gender She spoke about how she chooses to shy away from fantasy writing that only depicts a white washed version of medieval Europe, reminding the audience of the moors, chinese and other ethnicities that were[...]

What's next for Archie Comics to hit the headlines? Why, gender swapping of course Courtesy of Sabrina The Teenage Witch. In August's edition of Archie Comics, Archie becomes Archina, and Betty and Veronica become Billy and Ronnie. It's time for a heady examination of gender politics in the lives of teenagers. And, yes, yes, Archie does indeed appear to[...]

Tim Hanley gendercrunches for Bleeding Cool He is our sexual statistical correspondent. December was a fairly average month at DC and Marvel, though DC hit some impressive new lows and Marvel fell to single digits overall for the first time since the summer Also, there are a ridiculous number of charts as we look at 2011[...]

Today, at the London Super Comic Convention, on the How To Write A Comic Script panel, Si Spurrier gave up his seat in favour of a female panellist. He did this in support of Paul Cornell's stance that unless there is gender parity on a comic convention panel – fifty percent, or as near as,[...]

Full editors fell nearly a percentage point, while assistant editors were down a whopping 9 points. FEMALE CHARACTERS AT DC COMICS We usually talk about creators when we Gendercrunch, but I've gotten a few comments lately asking for a look at female characters This seemed like a fun idea, so this month we'll check out DC and[...]

Here are the charts: As we saw in the DCnU-specific Gendercrunching article, the DCnU books didn't cause any sort of precipitous drop overall This is true of DC as whole for September, with their overall total percentage of female creators down only 0.2% from August While 10.6% is below average for DC, it's not terribly low. However,[...]

The wage gap between genders has been steadily closing for decades (though a sizeable gap still remains) At DC, we see growth in some areas, like editorial, but this is counteracted by declines elsewhere All together, the percentage of female creators at DC Comics has been stagnant for 15 years, and I think that says[...]

I'm glad that Marvel gets a little better every month, but there's still a long way to go. DO FEMALE EDITORS RESULT IN MORE FEMALE CREATORS? You can find out lots of interesting things with stats, and this month we'll look at whether an editor's gender makes a difference in terms of who they hire[...]

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; When the overall percentage of female creators at Marvel and DC hovers around ten percent, it feels very odd to say