I’m busy traveling to San Diego — click to see my Comicon panel and signing schedule — and so I’m out of position when it comes to reporting the June 2011, second quarter 2011, and first half of 2011 sales. But the raw files are online at Diamond Comic Distributors, which reports that the slide … Read more
Newsarama posted a column this week speculating on whether DC might go to seasonal numbering of issues, rebooting the numbers every year — which reminded me that Nrama had asked me a few weeks back for some thoughts on comics numbering and where it came from in the first place. I don’t know if that … Read more
The full data for the month of May is out Diamond Comic Distributors, and as mentioned in the preliminary report here last week, the month softer year-over-year in all categories. The sales estimates for May 2011 can be found here. Again, unit sales were off by the greatest amount year-over-year, which should not be too … Read more
While Free Comic Book Day has been turning into the kickoff for the summer sales season, more of the action looks to be developing for later this year. Retailers gave away hundreds of thousands of free comic books in May but didn’t order as many of the for-profit ones, making for a month that was … Read more
In the wake of DC’s announced relaunches of its whole line in September, news of another numbering change, this time to Uncanny X-Men, a survivor of past relaunches. David Uzumeri at Comics Alliance writes that “as a consequence of the events of Jason Aaron‘s X-Men: Schism event series, the stalwart title will end as of … Read more
Incredibly busy lately — and a very busy week for the comics industry, too — but the estimates for April 2011 comics sales are now online here. No detailed report this time out, but you can find the initial notes for the month here. May 2011 figures are likely to be along in a few … Read more