Vulture takes a look at Valiant Entertainment

www.vulture.com/2014/12/valiant-comics-dinesh-shamdasani.html

Vulture has an interesting article on Valiant, its return and success. I read quite a bit of Valiant back in the 90's(Solar was a favorite, unfortunately not a currently-held property of the new company), but I had been avoiding jumping on the bandwagon; waiting to see if the new company really had legs and some staying power. I've got boxes full of comics by defunct publishers, whole universes of characters gone and largely forgotten. With their new four-issue mini-series The Valiant, which makes a good introduction to the Valiant Universe and it's characters, I'm dipping my toe back in the Valiant waters. So far I'm liking it.

One really interesting thing from that article stood out to me:

Shamdasani agrees that gender diversity is a concern. “We don’t have an equal split of male and female creatives or male and female talent [in the comics industry],” he said. “And I think because certain publishers are owned by large corporations, there are certain demands on them from an optics point of view. They value more highly female talent, and so they pay more for female talent, and they more aggressively court them. So it’s been very difficult.”

A problem I never really considered for publishers looking to add to their diversity, talent-wise. And the idea that some women are paid more than a comparable male talent, and are more aggressively courted by some publishers, for diversity reasons is interesting; and not something I think is common knowledge.