And beginning with January 2007, the sales charts for 2007 have all been reposted — along with trade paperback charts and multi-year comparatives. Much more to come! John Jackson MillerComichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for more than 25 years, including a decade editing the industry’s retail trade magazine; he is … Read more
I am pleased to report that, website problems mostly past, my sales estimates for August 2008 are now online. This is working out to be a year where we’re doing slightly worse than last year most months in the periodical categories; but slightly ahead most months in the trade paperbacks — and then when the … Read more
And now pages have been uploaded for all the months of 2008 that had been on the site before our crash, running from January 2008 to July 2008. This leaves (besides August 2008, currently being generated) everything before 2008 — which should be able to be added to the site much faster than was the … Read more
…as are lots of other pages on the new Comics Chronicles. Restored pages include… • comics sales for the 1960s• overall yearly comics sales• graphs for comics sales• frequently asked questions …with more to come in short order — only the Diamond numbers are left to add. There’s even some new data in the 1960s … Read more
The August 2008 Diamond figures (along with the others no longer on the site) will be coming along shortly, as pages are restored to the main site. Again, nothing has been lost in our recent website difficulties, so it’s just a matter of getting them back online. Thanks again for your patience! John Jackson MillerComichron … Read more
On occasion, I look back at the N.W. Ayer & Sons Directory — an annual publication that for more than a century under various names included information on periodicals for the use of advertisers. In addition to publisher addresses and physical dimensions of their ad spaces, the Directories include information from the Audit Bureau of … Read more