McCloud also lays out another important point: “Perhaps the real demographic time bomb in comics’ future is the growing importance of all-ages comics. On another front, Brett Schenker has been tracking the demographic shift of fandom over at The Beat, discovering that around 47% of all comics fans are girls. In one of his essays in this year’s Best American Comics volume, co-editor Scott McCloud writes that, although males continue to dominate the comics industry as creators, the ratio is shifting - females comprise more than 50 percent of those who major in comics at various educational institutions.
