Monday, September 20, 2004

Who Reads Comics?

I got this from THE BEAT, a more professional comics blog than mine, but they got it from Diamond Distribution, the main distributor of comics and related merchandise. Here's the profile of the avaerage reader of comics:

Average age: 34

Gender: 87 percent male; 13 percent female

Residence:
City — 48 percent
Suburbs — 38 percent
Rural — 14 percent

Education level:
College — 45 percent
High school — 33 percent
Junior college — 10 percent
Post graduate — 9 percent
Grade school — 3 percent

Music taste:
Classic rock — 27 percent
Metal — 16 percent
Adult contemporary — 8 percent
Country/western — 6 percent
Classical — 4 percent
Rap/hip-hop — 2 percent

Own a computer: 77 percent

Use the Internet: 86 percent

Own a home video game system: 68 percent

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