I’m busy traveling to San Diego — click to see my Comicon panel and signing schedule — and so I’m out of position when it comes to reporting the June 2011, second quarter 2011, and first half of 2011 sales. But the raw files are online at Diamond Comic Distributors, which reports that the slide in new comics sales seen earlier this year moderated somewhat.
The comparatives, as reported by Diamond:
| DOLLARS | UNITS | |
| JUNE 2011 VS. MAY 2011 | ||
| COMICS | 18.31% | 20.26% |
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | 16.45% | 10.63% |
| TOTAL COMICS/GN | 17.67% | 19.37% |
| JUNE 2011 VS. JUNE 2010 | ||
| COMICS | -4.62% | -1.43% |
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | -8.15% | -13.86% |
| TOTAL COMICS/GN | -5.85% | -2.63% |
| YEAR-TO-DATE 2011 VS. YEAR-TO-DATE 2010 | ||
| COMICS | -7.78% | -7.47% |
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | -5.97% | -10.63% |
| TOTAL COMICS/GN | -7.19% | -7.74% |
| SECOND QUARTER 2011 VERSUS FIRST QUARTER 2011 | ||
| COMICS | 8.41% | 6.90% |
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | 13.75% | 14.41% |
| TOTAL COMICS/GN | 10.14% | 7.50% |
| SECOND QUARTER 2011 VERSUS SECOND QUARTER 2011 | ||
| COMICS | -7.04% | -6.92% |
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | -4.82% | -8.20% |
| TOTAL COMICS/GN | -6.31% | -7.03% |
| FIRST HALF 2011 VERSUS SECOND HALF 2010 | ||
| COMICS | -10.05% | -6.51% |
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | -12.49% | -16.31% |
| TOTAL COMICS/GN | -10.87% | -7.41% |
More data and tables here after San Diego.
Comichron 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 the author of several guides to comics, as well as more than a hundred comic books for various franchises.
He is the author of novels including Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War, and his upcoming release, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The High Country. Read more about them at his fiction site.
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