Facebook Fandom Spotlight: Who are the US Comic Fans?
It’s December 1st, and that means a new Facebook Fandom Spotlight looking at the general comic book fan population. It also wraps up our first year of doing this monthly, so expect so long term trends being reported on as the month goes on. This one is particularly focused on the United States and is the first full report we’ve done using Facebook’s updated interface, which seems to continue to make a difference.
For this report, I again looked at the terms we used in previous reports, 102 “likes” on Facebook, primarily focused on terms like “comics” or “graphic novels” or publishers. I stay away from specific characters, creators or series, because this does not indicate they are a comic book fan. For this report, some new terms have been added and a few dropped from the previous month.
Facebook Population: Over 22,000,000 fans in the US
That’s an increase of 2.2 million individuals, an increase that happened well before I updated terms, both removing some and adding some. I can only think this primarily has to do with the new Facebook advertising platform and how it determines the “likes,” which is more than just Facebook pages. Unfortunately we don’t know which specific terms caused the growth, but will be able to track that better going forward.
Spanish speakers account for now 3,8000,000 fans, 13.64%. That’s a drop of 0.5% exactly from the previous month.
Gender and Age
In the previous month men accounted for 54.55% and women with 45.45% of the likes. That’s the highest percentage yet for women since we started this report. I thought this might be a fluke, but the second month in a row, these percentages have remained relatively steady. Men remain the same amount and women dip to 44.55%. With two months in a row, this seems to be the “new standard” for results.
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We’ll next look at how the percentage of women and men break down through age.
US Comic Fans
The above was similar to the previous month. Below is the raw data and the growth primarily occurred with those age 18 to 33.
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Relationship Status
With the massive increase of the overall population, the percents as far as their relationships have barely moved.
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And for those that like pie charts.
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Education
While there’s been growth in population, the percentages for all three have dropped, and all about a similar amount.
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Gender Interest
There’s also a little change here. Mostly women interested in women has dropped and that percentage has gone to women interested in men compared to the previous month.
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And that wraps up this month’s Facebook Fandom Update of comic fans in the US. Join us this Monday for a brand new report!
