John Jackson Miller 
The final full week of reorder and advance reorder charts from January is out 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 Jan. 22-28, 2018 (in dollars) These are items that have already shipped, but have been receiving … Read more
After several weeks with mostly DC and Image books atop the reorder and advance reorder charts at Diamond Comic Distributors, Marvel had the largest share of both tables last week. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future: TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Jan. 15-21, 2018 (in … Read more
A new report from Publisher’s Weekly reports that the graphic novel category was off 5% in units in stores and at online retailers reporting to Bookscan in 2017, as compared with a 11% increase in 2016. The category saw a drop from 11.94 to 11.33 million copies moved. The Bookscan total requires some massaging, as always: … Read more
Earlier this week, Diamond Comics Distributors made a major move in its reporting, switching from publishing the Top 300 comics and graphic novels to the Top 500s for each. The graphic novels had been at the 300 level for a little over nine years, but when did the 300 figure become the benchmark for comics? … Read more
Now that the December and end-of-2017 comics sales charts are online here at Comichron, it’s time to turn back to January and beyond. The second batch of reorder charts for the year are out from Diamond Comic Distributors, featuring some familiar titles. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move … Read more
With the release of December comics orders from Diamond Comic Distributors — and our subsequent analysis of and estimates for December 2017 comics sales now posted — Comichron has drawn upon that information to project estimates for the Top Thousand Comics and the Top Thousand Graphic Novels for 2017. The tables are on the page … Read more