John Jackson Miller 
Comic shop orders of comic books and graphic novels softened slightly in July, marking the first month since May 2014 in which year-over-year sales slipped. Diamond Comic Distributors‘ preliminary sales report for July 2015, released today, reported orders estimated by Comichron to be around $52 million, down a little less than 3%. There are a … Read more
With Comic-Con International: San Diego starting up today, the final sales report for June is now out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and as reported here on Monday, the first half of the year closed out very strongly. Click to see the sales estimates for comics ordered in June 2015. (Click also to see our end-of-year … Read more
The first half of 2015 is in the books, and comic books in particular put up some amazing numbers, according to data released on June sales by Diamond Comic Distributors. The comic book market continued to grow at a fast pace in June; its $48.7 million in sales meant that that the first half of … Read more
According to new estimate by ICv2 and Comichron The comics and graphic novel market hit another new high for the century in 2014, and a new high since the mid-90s, 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 … Read more
Marvel’s Secret Wars revival made a big splash in the comics market in May, moving more than 527,000 copies to comic shops in North America. That’s according to Comichron’s estimates for May 2015 comics sales based on information released by Diamond Comic Distributors. You can find the report here. That’s enough to place the issue … Read more
Marvel’s Secret Wars first topped the comics charts more than 30 years ago — and did so again in May 2015, according to preliminary sales reports released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. The event — along with Free Comic Book Day, attention from the second Avengers movie, and a boost from a repackager … Read more