I knew it would happen: like magic, I would leave for my first convention and the Diamond charts, absent since last October, would return with no warning. I was literally at the gate when the report arrived — and I was so sure they wouldn’t that I didn’t bring my laptop. I was able to … Read more
June 2021 looks to have been a colossal month for periodical comics, according to Comichron’s projected rankings for comics initial orders, just posted. Venom #35 led a five-week month slate that was the largest yet since the pandemic began. Find the June charts here. We counted 406 new comics overall and nearly 1,000 new variants … Read more
Combined comics and graphic novel sales hit a new high in the pandemic year of 2020, according to a new joint estimate by ICv2’s Milton Griepp and Comichron’s John Jackson Miller. Total comics and graphic novel sales to consumers in the U.S. and Canada were approximately $1.28 billion in 2020, a 6% increase over sales … Read more
. It’s been long since past time to clear some logjams when it comes to posting reports on the site: in part, what was delaying the posting of charts on hand from the 1980s is I needed parent pages for each year, and that was complicated by the fact that neither Diamond nor Capital released … Read more
Finishing a chore that built up while waiting to see what Diamond would do, November 2020’s rankings based on our retail dataset’s initial orders are now online. That’s the month when Diamond paused its sales reports, setting off this latest ongoing phase of uncertainty. November saw strong sales on a smaller slate, which seems to … Read more
May charts are now online. Batman #108 led our projected all-industry rankings for comic shop initial orders in the month. A projected 6 to 7 million copies were initially ordered overall, worth $30 to 31 million, obviously way above May 2020. Click to see the charts for May 2021. May 2021’s 329 new comic releases … Read more