Demographics: Comics Readers Almost 45% Women Now and How Publishers Stack Up
At the beginning of each month I take a survey of all of the self-identifying comic fans on Facebook, looking at the changes from...
Facebook Demographics: Different Publishers, Different Fans
For all of these posts I've tried to instill the idea that there isn't a simple comic fan. While it might mostly be men,...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 11/19/13 – Sexual Harassment Edition
In the words of NY Times bestselling author Mariah Huehner, "Women don’t exist for you to approve of or to make you feel better about the shitty way the world works. We don’t exist for you at all. We exist for ourselves. And we’re going to keep demanding for our rightful place in the world whether you like it or not."
Another must read: Whit Taylor ‘On Being a Black Female “Indie” Cartoonist’
There's that social context for indie comics I was talking about a while ago. Following a twitter exchange, Ignatz nominee Whit Taylor expands on...
Facebook Demographics: Female Characters Beget Female Fans
Much has been made over this past week over Marvel's announcement about a new Ms. Marvel. The usual nutwings took to the internet to...
Comics have hit puberty…and it’s not pretty
For the last few weeks, a story has been going around, recounted by artist Tess Fowler, about how a comics pro seemed to be...
So what does a gal have to do to get into The Comics Journal...
Over 1578 pages of material, the last three issues of The Comics Journal included 11 pages by or about women cartoonists. Is this exclusion hurting diversity in comics or just the dying breath of pap pap comics?
Facebook Demographics: The Walking Dead, Not All Media Are Created Equal
by Brett Schenker
The Walking Dead is a cultural phenomenon. The property regularly breaks records, whether it's television ratings, print runs and sell-outs in comics,...
Facebook Demographics: Even More Data Now Available Means More Info On Who Reads Comics
Just as you get things rolling, Facebook goes and updates how I get all of the data when it comes to looking at demographics....
Fangasm wrap-up: can we just retire the words “nerd” and “geek” for a while?
Fangasm, the reality show about nerds and their amazing lives, ended its run this week with a two hour season finale. I have to...
Facebook Demographics: What do digital comic readers look like?
During New York Comic Con, comiXology released an infographic with some of the funnier details from their recent user survey. While the exact numbers and results weren't released, some nuggets slipped out about who exactly their digital comic customer is.
Nielsen and Twitter reveal the harsh truth that the biggest fan chatter doesn’t equal...
Does social media buzz always equal a huge audience? Not necessarily. Nielsen, the sampling company which is the go-to measurer of TV viewership, book,...
