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!

20 years counting: Two decades of sales reports — plus August 2016’s comics sales estimates

The August 2016 sales estimates are now online, marking a full 20 years that I’ve been doing the monthly sales reports, both here and in its previous incarnations. It’s a whopper of a month, showing us some numbers that we haven’t seen since back in the earliest days of my estimates. I’ll get to some … Read more

More than 10 million comics ordered in August, most since 1996; Harley Quinn is #1

Since 1998, Diamond Comic Distributors has never shipped more than 10 million comic books to comics shops in a single month. That changed in August, as DC‘s “Rebirth” resulted in shipments of 10.26 million comics to retailers in North America. [UPDATE 9/19: The final estimates are out! Click for our August 2016 comics sales analysis … Read more

Ignore the asterisks: Most returnable comics improve on their reported monthly sales figures

A number of publishers carried by Diamond Comic Distributors have dabbled with accepting returns from comics shops over the years; DC, in particular, has embraced it more aggressively. With the returnable “Rebirth” titles sending the number of comics ordered per month skyward this summer, some have asked what the real, final impact is of comics … Read more

July 2016 comics sales estimates: 16 issues top 100,000 copies sold, DC takes 30 of Top 40

The DC “Rebirth” event with its returnable $2.99 releases resulted in a boom for comics unit sales in July 2016, according to Comichron’s analysis of data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Retailers ordered 8.58 million copies of the Top 300 comics in the month, eclipsing the 17-year high set last month — and a whopping … Read more

Rebirth helps DC edge past Marvel in July 2016; Justice League tops charts in $50.5 million month

DC‘s Rebirth franchise allowed it to best Marvel in market share in July 2016 for the first time in nearly three years, according to new statistics released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. DC led Marvel in total orders of comics, graphic novels, and magazines in by a little over 1%, 35.36% to 34.20%. That’s in … Read more

Comics and graphic novel sales top $1 billion in 2015

According to new estimate by ICV2 and Comichron The comics and graphic novel market crossed the billion dollar threshold in 2015, according to a new joint estimate by Comichron’s John Jackson Miller and ICv2’s Milton Griepp. Total comics and graphic novel sales to consumers in the U.S. and Canada reached $1.03 billion in 2015, a … Read more