John Jackson Miller

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. Be sure to follow Comichron on Twitter and Facebook, and check out our Youtube channel. You can also support us on Patreon!

Spider-Verse continues to dominate reorders

Comics shop reorders were led last week by the Spider-Verse TPB, while Uncanny X-Men 3D #1 was the top reordered January-shipping comic book.  Check out all the January-so-far charts (the final rankings and estimates will get posted in a few days). We also now have the first advance reorders by retailers for March-shipping comics. The … Read more

December 2018 sales slightly off on smallest new comics slate in years; DC’s 52 new comics its fewest since 1991

The December report for comics sales is always a strange one, because the annual report from Diamond Comic Distributors, which these days gets released before it, obviously has December data baked into it. From the annual report, we already know many of the top entries in the charts—and from the indexed charts, we know how … Read more

The 2018 Two Thousand: A look at the 1,000 top-selling comics and graphic novels ordered by comic shops

With the release of 2018 end-of-year comics orders from Diamond Comic Distributors, Comichron has drawn upon that information to project estimates for the Top Thousand Comics and the Top Thousand Graphic Novels for 2018. The tables are on the page just beneath the image links to individual months. This year’s charts have our sorting and searching … Read more

Diamond’s combined comics and graphic novel sales up slightly in 2018; Action #1000, Infinity Gauntlet top titles

Diamond Comic Distributors has released its annual top-sellers list for 2018, and the entries are basically as we had projected them here through November at Comichron — and our projected dollar market shares were spot-on. We also got from the data a little information about what sold in December. To no one’s surprise, April’s Action Comics #1000 … Read more

Comics Retailer: A Look Back – December 1993

My look back at Comics Retailer magazine issues I edited 25 years ago continues with my latest chapter, covering December 1993 events including the late-shipping crisis, Malibu’s TV ads, and rampant retailer worries that Blockbuster would get into comics. You can find the introductory chapter here. John Jackson MillerComichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked … Read more