John Jackson Miller 
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 … Read more
Just back from New York Comic-Con, an amazingly busy event — and while attendance numbers have not been released, the outside observer certainly wouldn’t have suspected it was taking place in a year in which comics and graphic novel orders had been, through September, down 10% in the Direct Market, as was reported here … Read more
I had mentioned on Twitter earlier this week that while last September was a strong month for the Direct Market thanks to DC’s Rebirth program, the month’s sales levels offered a relatively reachable target. While information released today by Diamond Comic Distributors shows that September 2017 comics and graphic novel orders, at $43.52 million, fell … Read more
The Legacy event — which will revise the issue numbering of many of its titles to restore their original numbering, or something close to it — released today, and it recalled that more than a decade ago, I had written a piece on what I termed “legacy titles” and their numbering for Comics Buyer’s … Read more
While comics shop orders during the month of August 2017 were down in all categories versus last August’s blockbuster, we’ve finally found a book that’s been able to top a mark set in that summer of DC Rebirth launches. And it’s another DC book: Comichron estimates that Diamond Comic Distributors shipped almost exactly 262,000 copies … Read more
Full-line relaunches of the scale DC engineered in 2016 with “Rebirth” and 2011 with the “New 52” are colossal market-distorting moments, making a hash of the comparative statistics both when their sales are reported, and when any future month’s sales are later compared with them. It takes a while for a revamped line to find … Read more