women in comics Archives

Today we interview comics industry veteran Micheline Hess. Hess is known for many works over the years but most prominently for Malice in Ovenland.

Why? Because everyone deserves representation. They are: East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) Schomburg Black Comic Book Day Women In Comics Con Black Age of Comics   Latino Comics Expo   Flamecon   Black Comics Expo Khemfest Onyxcon Atlanta Scifi and Fantasy Expo Motor City Black Age of Comics   Glass City Comix Fest   Asian American Comicon Black Comix Arts Festival Kids Comic Con Black Speculative Arts Movement SOL-Con Black Comix Day Blerd City Blerd Con Pocket-Con Blacktasticon Mecca Con Mid-City Micro-Con Wicomicon[...]

Bleeding Cool's Joe Glass was tapped to be a part of the Diversity in Comics panel at London Super Comic Con — and got a bit more than he bargained for.

One of the last panels of SDCC 2017, Moving Beyond the Strong Female Character, had women creators discuss the current climate of women portrayed in media.

Christine Marquet writes for Bleeding Cool…   The Women of Color in Comics: Race, Gender, and the Comic Book Medium panel at San Diego Comic Con was organized by the Women in Comics Collective (WinC, pronounced "wink). Their membership is made up of artists, writers, educators, filmmakers, show producers, art gallery directors, cosplayers, game developers, bloggers, and toy[...]

Madeline Ricchiuto writes for Bleeding Cool… Moving Beyond The Strong Female Character was one of NYCC's "Women in Comics" panels that gathered together a group including Amy Chu, Jody Hauser, and Jill Pantozzi to geek out about ladies in comics and pop culture. Of all the usual complaints and stories of being shut out in ways their[...]

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

By Tim Hanley Both DC and Marvel saw gains for female creators in July, with strong numbers across the board contributing to one of the publishers'

By Tim Hanley DC's overall percentage of female creators declined by more than half coming out of Convergence while Marvel ticked up and took the top spot

At best you'll see a token "Women in Comics" or a "Women in Horror" type of panel at any given show I asked myself why they were celebrated more for all their contributions and accomplishments Even more so, these women were more than willing to share their experiences and skill sets so that the next[...]

By Tim Hanley The concluding month of "Convergence" meant more big numbers for DC, and they bested Marvel yet again for the highest overall percentage of

And when you're talking about women in comics statistics, "not too bad" is practically "good". The chart below shows the percentages of female creators in every category for all of June's #DCYou titles There are no Vertigo books, no digital first, no kid's titles; just the main line #DCYou books We'll do June's full numbers down[...]

It's such a perfectly brilliant way to show you exactly how packed this book is with mind-blowing comics. [Artwork by Stephanie Mannheim] NF: It's interesting that we spend a lot of time talking about the sexualization of women in comics (and rightfully so), while not talking as much about women and beauty itself In other words, we[...]

By Tim Hanley DC slipped down slightly in March while Marvel catapulted forward on the strength of their "Women of Marvel" variant cover line to post the

If you've been at Denver Comic Con or hanging out on social media, you may know that there was a Women in Comics Panel at the convention a couple of days ago that failed to produce any female panelists As I'm sure you'd agree, this represents a lot of what can go wrong when people[...]

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

Now, if only I could arrange for the current British Comics' Laureate, Dave Gibbons, to get involved when I next teach Watchmen to my A Level Media Studies students. But I digress from the theme on the panel: women in comics. So, onto the Frank Cho debate and my question; why there seemed to be a lack[...]

By Michele Brittany, a West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent Most people know of “OC” as the center of decadence and housewives, but there are other,

By Tim Hanley. The year closed with some low numbers at the Big Two, ending what has been an unimpressive quarter for female creator representation at

By Tim Hanley DC Comics' overall percentage of female creators rose but remained in single digits as Marvel posted the higher total again despite no

I pitched them a film about women in comics, drawing from my interest in recent online discussions about women and their place in the comics world It took off from there and became She Makes Comics! NF: The history of women making comics is obviously an enormous topic Did the scope of the subject matter concern[...]

By Tim Hanley Both DC and Marvel increased their overall percentage of female creators in October, with Marvel hitting the higher number yet again, but

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

But some benefit, however small, is a positive bit of news, and that's rare when you're talking women in comics stats. Marvel's variant numbers had some stark differences month to month, with a big decrease from June to August, and the average came out to only 8.6% Their variant total is lower than DC's, though again[...]

By Tim Hanley DC rose and Marvel fell, but ultimately Marvel had the higher percentage of female creators for the second straight month. We also take a

Liz Hey writes from San Diego Comic Con: There’s a certain bitterness that comes in every female Comic Con veteran’s response to the concept of

By Tim Hanley DC fell slightly in April, but Marvel fell even more, allowing DC to retain the higher percentage of female creators for the fifth straight

However, as I prepared for a presentation on Ed Brubaker's Velvet for last month's Comics Arts Conference series at Wondercon, I began to take a closer look at women in the media I was consuming. With the celebration of Women in Comics this month by Previews, my interest was further piqued when I wanted to prepare[...]

By Tim Hanley DC’s overall percentage of female characters fell while Marvel’s rose, but the difference wasn’t enough to make up the gap between the

In celebration of Women in Comics month, both ladies agreed to an email interview. Michele Brittany: Ladies, thank you so much for giving your time for this interview I feel like we have known each other for so long, but in fact we met at Comikaze in 2012 However, I realized that I don't know much[...]