Dark Nights Metal #5 top reorder last week; Sienkiewicz Walking Dead covers lead advance reorders for March, April

  We’re hearing about more reorders and advance reorders that comics shops placed in February with 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 Feb. 5-Feb. 11, 2018 (in invoiced dollars) These are items that have already shipped, but have … Read more

Job cuts hit Barnes & Noble

Earlier this year we passed along that, according to Bookscan, the adult graphic novel category was off 5% in 2017, with the kids’ graphic novel category up 1.9%. Both those figures were an improvement over the 10% loss for the year suffered by the comic book specialty shop market, which remains the largest channel for … Read more

Fifth week helps January comics sales arrest slide; Doomsday Clock #3 leads big month for DC

A fifth shipping week in January helped reduce the year-to-year drop in Direct Market sales to the smallest dropoff we’ve seen since last spring, just under 2%, according to information released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. We’ve been reporting reorders and advance reorders for January comics at Comichron for weeks now; now, we finally have a … Read more