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!

2000 for 2012: Top 1000 Comics and Top 1000 Trades, with Comichron estimates

With today’s release of December comics orders from Diamond Comic Distributors — and our subsequent analysis and estimates for December 2012 comics sales now posted — The Comics Chronicles has drawn upon that information to project estimates for the Top Thousand Comics and the Top Thousand Graphic Novels for 2012. The tables are on the … Read more

December 2012 comics sales estimates online

Diamond Comic Distributors has released the full charts for December, completing the picture of sales by comics shops for the year. Click to see the Comichron estimates for December 2012 comics sales. As described here on Friday, Amazing Spider-Man #700 was the best-seller, and as projected it narrowly topped 200,000 copies. (As before, previous publisher … Read more

December 2012 comics sales make for $475 mil year

Comic-book stores in North America ordered nearly $40 million in comic books and bound editions in December 2012, according to Comichron‘s anaylsis of data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. This is an increase of 15.74% over last year, and it confirms our estimate for 2012’s overall sales earlier this week; retailers ordered $474.6 … Read more

End of an era: Comics Buyer’s Guide, 1971-2013

The last issue, #1699. Today, F+W Media announced the closure of Comics Buyer’s Guide after the publication of its 1,699th issue (March 2013). The magazine, which began life in the basement of a comics fan in 1971 was for many years the largest marketplace for comics sales by mail — as well as being the … Read more

Comics up 15% in 2012, Walking Dead tops comic, GN charts

In advance of the larger releases of its December and 2012 year-end sales tables, Diamond Comic Distributors has released a sneak peek at the topline figures for the year. Comic shop orders for comic books and graphic novels reportedly increased by 14.72% over 2011. This would bring the year in at nearly $475 million — … Read more

A good year for comics

The end-of-year comics sales figures will be out in the next few weeks, as well as the December sales reports, and as mentioned here before, 2012 looks to have been an outstanding year, with major gains for comics in both the print direct market and digital space. I’ll begin analyzing the figures as soon as … Read more