John Jackson Miller Quick note: I am interviewed over in Heidi MacDonald’s 2010 Year-in-Review, covering some elements regarding the health of the industry this past year and touching on the role of the growing digital market. John Jackson MillerComichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for more than 25 years, including a decade editing the … Read more
It’s the week for end-of-year lists — but as Diamond Comics Distributors won’t release its December sales figures until later next week, the comics year isn’t over. (It’s probable that Avengers #1 will be the top seller for the year, but we’ll see.) So instead I present not one, but three end-of-year lists — from … Read more
November was the second month for which Diamond published percentage change information for its overall comics and trade paperback sales — and a number of kinks are still being worked out of the process. Many (but not all) are on my end, as you’ll read — and as such, it took about three weeks in … Read more
No time for a longer flashback today, but with the New York Times moving much content back behind a paywall in January, now is probably a good time to search for any of those comics articles you’d like to see before the change. I was amused to find an interview with me from September 1996, … Read more
A brief flashback today on a title that had a brief run: Gene Roddenberry’s Xander in Lost Universe, a part of the Tekno-Comix line from 1995. A part of Big Entertainment, Tekno-Comix was a short-lived attempt to build series around the names and concepts of celebrities ranging from Leonard Nimoy to John Jakes. It … Read more
BookScan, the A.C. Nielsen service that tracks book sales using point-of-purchase information in thousands of bookstores — plus online sales from Amazon — has now made its sales data available through Amazon. If you’re the book’s author, that is. As the Los Angeles Times also reports, Amazon has added a Sales Data tab to the … Read more