This month begins my twenty-fifth year of covering the comics industry professionally (for those counting, that means the actual anniversary is November 2018), and I speak about a number of the datasets that I’ve been developing over the years on the new Off Panel podcast with David Harper of SKTCHD.
It’s a wide-ranging discussion, looking at the difference between distributor shipment figures and overall sales, touching on comic book variants and how they’ve changed over the years, and getting into the importance of having circulation figures to both retailers and the aftermarket. There’s also some discussion of current market conditions — and many references to baseball statistics!
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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