CBR recently ran a contest to identify the 100 greatest comics writers and artists. That’s 200 slots.
Guess how many were women?
Go head.
Did you guess two? Two out of 200 slots?
Gail Simone made the writer list and Fiona Staples made the artist list.
That’s 1%.
Kelly Thompson is working with Brian Cronin of Comics Should Be Good to identify the 50 best female writer and artists. She writes
It’s not really surprising that given only 200 precious slots to fill, and with all the absolutely stunning comics creators over the years that women almost never made it into people’s ballots. Women just haven’t historically had the comics credits to their name and that’s for a variety of reasons both reasonable and less reasonable. But this post is not about examining the past and the how and why we got here, it’s about celebrating what we do have, and what we have had.
We hope this raised awareness of the great work done and being done by women in comics will be one small drop in the bucket toward eventually having a Top 100 list that includes more than just two women.
