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Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; Marvel was down from their record-setting total last month, but still put in a strong showing to top a somewhat

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; It was another big month for Marvel, who smashed the record for highest percentage of female creators, while DC

Tim Hanley writing for Bleeding Cool The percentage of female creators at the Big Two went up for both publishers in August, by a smidge for DC and by a

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; Both publishers were down in July, but Marvel stayed on top as DC fell all the way into single digits in what wasn’t

Tim Hanley writes; Marvel was back on top in June as both companies had notable swings overall, Marvel for better and DC for worse. We also mix it up, and

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; After three months in a row at the same percentage of female creators, DC Comics was up in May, which helped them

Tim Hanley numbercrunches for Bleeding Cool; DC stayed the same AGAIN while Marvel dipped a bit but still had the higher overall percentage of female

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; DC stayed the same in March, but Marvel broke the record for the highest percentage of female creators since we began

GENDERCRUNCHING COMIC BOOK SALES So I thought that looking at Diamond's sales for February in terms of female creators might offer us some valuable insights into our usual numbers Maybe women sell way better than men and publishers are crazy not to hire them Maybe women sell way lower and that's a reason why publishers don't[...]

Gendercrunching January 2012 January wasn't particularly great for either publisher, with both DC and Marvel just barely reaching double digits for female creators DC won this race to the bottom by a small margin, continuing to squash Marvel's recent upstart aim for the top spot Also, we take a look at female characters on Marvel covers. DC[...]

Tim Hanley gendercrunches for Bleeding Cool. He is our sexual statistical correspondent. December was a fairly average month at DC and Marvel, though DC

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool. November was a solid month for both publishers, and Marvel had the higher percentage of female creators for only the

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; Both publishers improved in October, with DC edging out Marvel by just 0.1% to claim the top overall percentage of

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 "Gendercrunching" stats are always tabulated by comic book, so a creator gets counted in the overall total for every book they are credited in, and then by category for every different job they do in each book For this separate count, I totalled up the DCnU creators by name only so we could see[...]

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; It was a ridiculously busy but not particularly great month for either publisher, with their massive stacks of books

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; I’ll be doing the women in comics stats for DC and Marvel like always this month, but since the DC relaunch is sort

This sounds a lot like numbers from previous "Gendercrunching" articles, specifically May's 12.5% and the DCnU solicits article's 1.9% The 12% to 1% drop got quoted several times after ComicCon, including a Newsarama article where Vaneta Rogers questioned if the numbers were overblown If the questioner was referring to the "Gendercrunching" numbers, as Rogers contends,[...]

When I first heard about their Kickstarter page, I thought "I should link to that in Gendercrunching next week", but then I checked back the next day and they had reached their $25,000 goal in less than 24 hours They currently sit at over $55,000, five days in This means that people have shelled out[...]

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool. Well, things are better and things are worse. Last month, DC and Marvel tied for a pretty middling overall total, but

Cartoon by Liz Popolo. Bleeding Cool, amongst others, has reported on the seemingly shocking reduction in the proportion of female creators listed as

by Tim Hanley With the full solicitations for DC Comics' relaunch now revealed, we have a special edition of Gendercrunching!! In terms of female characters, it looks decent Of the 52 new number ones, 7 of the books are headlined by solo women or all-female teams, and several other team books feature female characters[...]

After leading Marvel for three months, DC Comics took a tumble and the Big Two ended up tied for April. Marvel saw a modest bump, which is lovely, but

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