by John Jackson Miller I’ll be saving the more lengthy analysis for the Newsarama column coming up, but the tables with my raw estimates for March can be found here. I will say here that while it is a soft month, it’s one that’s following a year after a blockbuster March — and the first … Read more
by John Jackson Miller It will be a bit yet before the calculations appear here (New York Comicon took everyone’s weekend, along with my voice) but for the curious, here are the vanilla rankings for the Diamond Top 300, released today. This is raw — no clean-up work, no formatting. The “ratio” is the number … Read more
by John Jackson Miller I’m off to New York Comicon (signing at the Dark Horse booth from 4-5 Friday, otherwise out and about, or at Marc Patten’s booth) — which will be the answer to your question “Where are the March figures?” Diamond has not released them at this writing, but I would expect them … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The new Overstreet Price Guide is out, the first with yours truly as an Overstreet advisor — previously I’d worked exclusively for the competition. (Maggie Thompson is in the Overstreet group as well now — things change). My first contribution is a feature on Star Wars comics history, getting a bit … Read more
by John Jackson Miller My Newsarama feature for the month appears here (with lots of cool historical comparatives), and the charts and graphs here are updated, as well. X-Force #1 led the top-selling comics list in February: TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES February 2008: 6.26 million copies Versus 1 year ago this month: -5% Versus … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Linkworthy: This resource on sales figures for the many weekly British comics series. A lot of stuff I hadn’t seen before, and definitely worth a look! 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 … Read more