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Marvel Comics' writer/editor, C.B. Cebulski, recently updated his Blog with some interesting Marvel numbers... here's a 12 month breakdown of what he found out after looking over various spreadsheets/data for newly hired Marvel employees in 2009.
- Writers - 24
- Pencilers and/or penciler/inkers - 81 (Provide non-color line art)
- Digital painters - 13 (Provide complete artwork from sketch to color, covers and/or interiors)
- Inkers - 8
- Colorists - 15 (Provide color only over line art)
- Letterers - 3
- 18 of these talents were women.
- The increasing number of pencilers who have started to ink themselves lead to a fall in the number of dedicated inkers Marvel hired.
- Geographically speaking, the largest percentage of talent came from the U.S., followed by Italy, Spain and South America.
- These numbers reflect what C.B. calls "first-time talent" who had never been published by Marvel before.
