As of this writing, the survey now has received 463 completed responses. Although I’d initially intended to close it on January 15 (tomorrow), I’m going to keep going for another three weeks in order to run the numbers up a little bit higher.

The more people who complete the survey, the better and more accurate a picture we have of the comics industry as a place to work in general but, perhaps more importantly, we need a relatively large group of responses in order to be able to say anything at all about smaller groups within the population—whether that be minority creators, older creators, or occupational roles. So please take the survey and share it with your friends and collaborators by February 5, 2014.

With that announcement out of the way, let me turn to a couple of statistics and charts about age and career length.