A micro-level market indicator we don’t see too much these days in the mainstream press: the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reports on the closure this week of Comic Bookie in Claremont, Calif. According to the report, the store has been open since Nov. 1, 1990, aptly characterized as the boom period for new shop openings. … Read more
The Miramichi Leader in New Brunswick has a piece online about comics sales charts and how comics fans read them as much as film fans check out box office results. Reporter Darcey McLaughlin discusses the monthly ritual many of us take part in, and what the charts say about the medium — particularly in that … Read more
And we’re marching ahead — by marching backwards. Now online are all the charts from 2006, beginning with January 2006 and running to December 2006. Return with us to what was a pretty good year for comics, sales-wise — the year of both Infinite Crisis and Civil War. It also marked the start of the … Read more
Forbes has an article on bubbles in collecting hobbies — certainly recalling what I used to see in my years at Krause Publications, where with our magazines in various collecting fields we were able to follow the speculator craze from sportscards, to comics, to Magic cards, to Beanie Babies, to action figures, to Pokémon cards … Read more
I only caught this now, but Fortune has an article on “old-fashioned [comics] publishing” and how it’s helping Marvel. A lot of interesting numbers here. A favorable piece — though there is that line that comics shops are “one of the most archaic distribution systems in existence.” One might note to the author that those … Read more
The new site has sped the restoration of pages to the point that now, we’re back where we were, and then some. Now online are the Yearly Diamond (and Heroes World) Overviews, summing all the reports the distributors put out in each individual year. So you can start with the 1996 Comics Sales Market Summary … Read more