John Jackson Miller 
Modern-era records fell all over the place last month in the comic shop market, according to Comichron’s analysis of data reported by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the comics sales estimates for April 2015. Among the Diamond Era records that fell, or nearly fell: • Comics ordered (units): Retailers ordered 8.39 million copies of … Read more
Last year, April provided a big rebound from a weak winter in comics sales; this year’s winter was strong in comics shops, and its April was better still. Retailers ordered $56.72 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines in April, according to Diamond Comic Distributors, beating last October’s Diamond Era record by more than … Read more
Saturday, May 2 is Free Comic Book Day, the fourteenth observance of the comics industry’ official holiday — and while I was at a convention during last year’s event and couldn’t do a signing in my local shop, I will be returning to do one at Galaxy Comics, Games, and More in Stevens Point, Wisconsin … Read more
The final sales report for last month is now out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and as reported here on Friday, the first quarter closed with some modest improvement overall versus the same period last year. Marvel‘s Princess Leia #1, the top-selling title, topped a quarter million copies. Click to see the sales estimates for comics … Read more
March closed the winter quarter on a mildly positive note in the comics industry, according to data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Comic shops ordered nearly $42 million in comics and graphic novels, up about 3% over last March, which like this one had four shipping weeks. Marvel’s relaunch of the Star Wars … Read more
In baseball, many of the statistics of the 1990s must be viewed with caution, as they’re part of the “Steroid Era.” Comics had its own Steroid Era in the early 1990s, in the sense that orders were inflated by an unprecedented number of retail accounts that had been opened on easy credit terms by the … Read more