A lot of data out this week about the comics business. Brian Hibbs has his fifteenth (!) annual Bookscan report at ComicsBeat, where he finds the top 750 graphic novels in the book channel stores the service surveys up 3.44% in units and down the same in dollars. The overall category sits at $302 million, … Read more
March is winding down, and while it saw rotten weather in the Northeast, there’s at least one anecdotal sign of thaw: Chuck Rozanski reported yesterday that the month to date is up 63% at Mile High Comics. That’s highly unlikely for the Direct Market at large in March, which is up against a month with one … Read more
Action Comics #1000 is one of April’s bigger headlines, and the advance reorders placed by retailers from Diamond Comic Distributors last week definitely reflects that. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future: TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Mar. 12-18, 2018 (in invoiced dollars) These are items that have … Read more
With the February sales estimates posted earlier this week, we now have another look at March with the top books that comics shops reordered from Diamond Comic Distributors. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future: TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Mar. 5-11, 2018 (in invoiced dollars)These … Read more
The comics sales estimates for February 2018 based on Diamond Comic Distributors’ reports are now online here, and the information adds some insights to what was already reported here on Friday. It is, firstly, a weak February of the sort we have often seen, with few high-profile releases — particularly when it comes to … Read more
With no new Doomsday Clock issue in the offing, February was a slow month in comics shops, according to Comichron‘s analysis of data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. But whereas comics and graphic novels were equally responsible for 2017’s overall shortfall, last month graphic novels were the main culprit, with periodicals nearly, but not quite, … Read more