2011 Comics Census

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There was a shitload of #womenincomics hashchatter happening on Twitter this week, and I was like, hey, it’s probably time for that comics census again. And then I apparently wanted to avoid writing or something, so I’m actually linking everything this time.

Female-produced comics (in good standing) that I follow:

Twenty five.

• Dorothy Gambrell — Donation Derby
• Meredith Gran — Octopus Pie
• Angela Melick — Wasted Talent
• Spike — Templar, Arizona
• Sophie Goldstein and Jenn Jordan — Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell
• Kirs Dresen — Various comics, most recently “She Said,” which just ended but gets grandfathered in.
• Natalie Nourigat — Between Gears (just finished, gets grandfathered in.)
• Dylan Meconis — Family Man (on hiatus until September)
• Dorothy Gambrell — Cat and Girl
• Jenn Manley Lee — Dicebox
• Lucy Knisley — Stop Paying Attention
• Hailey Bachrach and Bridget Underwood — The Battle of Dovecote Crest
• Trudy Cooper — Oglaf!
• Amanda Lafrenais — Love Me Nice
• Kate Beaton — Hark, A Vagrant! (plus occasional diary comics on Twitter as @beatonna)
• Jess Fink — Kid With Experience (and one of these days I’ll catch up on her Victorian robotic porno comic)
• Faith Erin Hicks — The Adventures of Superhero Girl
• Liz Prince — Liz Prince Power
• Rebecca Clements — KinokoFry
• Danielle Corsetto — Girls With Slingshots
• Magnolia Porter — Monster Pulse (and previously Bobwhite)
• Emi Lennox — Emitown
• Rebecca Clements — Ruffle Hall
• Amanda Lafrenais, Magnolia Porter, and Kel McDonald — Dracula Mystery Club
• Katie Shanahan — Shrub Monkeys

Female cartoonists I follow who aren’t posting continuous projects at the moment:

Nine.

• Vera Brosgol — Vera’s Particular Sketchblog (Anya’s Ghost was a really good print comic; go grab a copy. Posts mostly illustrations, including the Draw This Dress group blog with…)
• Emily Carroll (…who posts illustrations and occasional short comics of startling power on her own blog.)
• Clio Chiang — Clio’s Sketchmajibber!! (I think she’s mostly animating these days. Worked on the new Winnie the Pooh movie.)
• Colleen Coover (Gingerbread Girl, with Paul Tobin, was a very good print comic. Posts illustrations.)
• Natasha Allegri — pancake pancake pancake (illustration, Adventure Time production art, occasional comics)
• Jen Wang (I’ve got a copy of Koko Be Good waiting for me on the table. Posts illustrations.)
• Ainsley Seago — Aussie Beetles (Occasional comics; more frequently, insect and wildlife photos)
• Cat Farris (@cattifer)
• Hope Larson (@hopelarson)

Mixed-gender team comics (in good standing) that I follow:

Six.

• Joey Comeau and Emily Horne — A Softer World
• Yuko Ota and Ananth Panagariya — Johnny Wander – Comic Feed (Also Yuko’s Tumblr at What are you doing.)
• Ariel Schrag and Kevin Seccia — Ariel and Kevin Invade Everything
• Erika Moen and Jeff Parker — Bucko
• Bill Ellis and Dani O’Brien — All New Issues
• Shaenon Garrity and Jeffrey Wells — Skin Horse

Mixed-gender misc stuff:

One.

• Stuart and Kathryn Immonen — maison immonen (Print comics peeps who do Big Two spandex work. They post illustrations, WIPs, covers, splash pages, and scrapbooky Tumblr stuff.)

Male-produced comics (in good standing) that I follow:

Forty five.

• Ryan North — Dinosaur Comics
• Jorge Cham — PHD Comics
• Kit Roebuck and Alec Reed — Bohemian Drive Log
• David Malki — Wondermark
• Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins Penny-Arcade
• Randall Munroe — xkcd.com
• R. Stevens — Diesel Sweeties
• Mike Russell — Sabertooth Vampire (And CulturePulp, occasionally)
• Les McClaine — Jonny Crossbones (Coming off hiatus?)
• Sam Logan — Sam and Fuzzy
• Ben _____ — tweep.com
• Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield — FreakAngels (Just finished, but I’ve been reading it all year, so it’s in the census.)
• David Troupes — Buttercup Festival
• James Kochalka — American Elf
• Rick Smith and Brian Griggs — Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery
• Adam Koford — The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats
• David McGuire — GastroPhobia
• KC Green — Gun Show (and midnite surprise)
• Justin Pierce — The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
• John Campbell — pictures for sad children (and his Tumblr)
• Andrew Coker, Andrew Shellshear, David Karlov, David McLeish, David Morgan-Mar, Ian Boreham, Loki Patrick, and Steven Irrgang — Darths & Droids
• Aaron Diaz — Dresden Codak
• Indigo Kelleigh — Ellie Connelly
• Jesse Moynihan — Forming
• Chris Baldwin — Spacetrawler
• Howard Tayler — Schlock Mercenary
• Jeffrey Rowland — Overcompensating
• John Alison — Bad Machinery
• Steve Wolfhard — Cat Rackham
• Jon Lewis — TRUE SWAMP
• Jon Rosenberg — Scenes From A Multiverse
• Ryan Pequin — Three Word Phrase
• Ryan Armand — Modern Fried Snake
• Dave Kellett — Drive
• Zach Weiner — Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
• Dylan Horrocks — Hicksville Comics, including The Magic Pen
• Tony Cliff — Delilah Dirk
• Zac Gorman — Magical Game Time
• Derek Kirk Kim and Les McClaine — TUNE
• Steven Cloud — Boy on a Stick and Slither
• Andrew Hussie — Homestuck
• Matt C. — Eat That Toast!
• Sam Brown — Exploding Dog (Linking to Twitter, since Exploding Dog ends up, appropriately enough, scattered across the whole internet and Twitter is the central place where he links it all)
• Anthony Clark — Nedroid
• Ron Chan and Sean Kelley — (Roy’s Boys

Male cartoonists I follow who aren’t posting continuous projects at the moment:

Four.

• Steve Lieber (@stevelieber)
• Bill Mudron (@mudron)
• Brian Lee O’Malley (@radiomaru)
• Evan Dahm (@evndahm), who actually IS posting a continuous comic, but I’m not reading it because I need time for a real archive binge.

Comics (in good standing) whose creators don’t disclose their gender:

One.

• Der-shing Helmer — The Meek

The skinny

Wow, that took fucking forever. Anyway, that’s 37% female, 54% male, 8% mixed, and 1% undisclosed. And it looks like that one cognitive glitch where a 1/3 cohort of women looks like a majority is alive and well, because I was pretty sure they had the upper hand before I counted.

Those numbers are a slight improvement over the previous years, emphasis on slight: 2009 was 30% female, 63% male, and 6% mixed, and 2008 was 37% female, 58% male, and 6% mixed. This list is also begging for some racial analysis, but I so do not have the juice for that right now. Maybe later.

Anyway, what should I be following that I’m not?