And now pages have been uploaded for all the months of 2008 that had been on the site before our crash, running from January 2008 to July 2008. This leaves (besides August 2008, currently being generated) everything before 2008 — which should be able to be added to the site much faster than was the … Read more
…as are lots of other pages on the new Comics Chronicles. Restored pages include… • comics sales for the 1960s• overall yearly comics sales• graphs for comics sales• frequently asked questions …with more to come in short order — only the Diamond numbers are left to add. There’s even some new data in the 1960s … Read more
The August 2008 Diamond figures (along with the others no longer on the site) will be coming along shortly, as pages are restored to the main site. Again, nothing has been lost in our recent website difficulties, so it’s just a matter of getting them back online. Thanks again for your patience!
On occasion, I look back at the N.W. Ayer & Sons Directory — an annual publication that for more than a century under various names included information on periodicals for the use of advertisers. In addition to publisher addresses and physical dimensions of their ad spaces, the Directories include information from the Audit Bureau of … Read more
Here’s part of a talk I had with Tom Spurgeon of ComicsReporter about comics and recessions. Some of this is stuff I’ve said elsewhere, but I think the general theory is true — we need to look at front-market and back-market separately, and then you need to look at how the structure of the comics … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Updated! As I surmised last month, June 2008 comics sales in the direct market had an easier time in comparison with June 2007 sales, in part thanks to the second best trade paperback month recorded among Diamond’s Top 100 Trade Paperbacks. While ground was still lost in the narrower categories (such … Read more