As Comics Buyer’s Guide reports, Wizard magazine is suspending publication of its print version immediately, turning to a digital format in February. Wizard came on the scene in the early 1990s with a bang, capturing — and contributing — to the boom period in comics with its attention on new publishers, its monthly price guide, … Read more
Yesterday, Diamond released its Top 500 comics and trades, extended on Comichron here to the Top 1000s in each case; this post described the process. Today, in line with Diamond’s monthly release of supplemental lists of items sold by “non-Premier” (or back-of-the-catalog) publishers Diamond has added the top 200 comics and top 200 trades from … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released on its site its lists of Top 500 Comics and Top 500 trade paperbacks and graphic novels for 2010, following up its release of just the Top 10s last week. As I did last year, I have combined that information with my own estimates of aggregated sales of comics and … Read more
Diamond has released its full Top 300 lists for December, as well as posting online its Top 500s for the year, incorporated here and addressed in another post, thus completing the picture for the year. Click to see the Top 300 comics and trades for the month. Preliminary estimates for December were confirmed … Read more
Amid the rollout of end-of-year reports for 2010, Diamond Comic Distributors released its top sellers for December 2010 on Friday, as well as the specific category breakdowns. Find the list of December 2010 top-sellers here. Diamond CEO Steve Geppi had spoken of improvement in the fourth quarter in that end-of-year announcement, and there was a … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors announced today that annual sales of comic books, graphic novels, and magazines to the comic book specialty market declined slightly in 2010, down 3.5% from 2009. The report for December hasn’t been made public yet, but The Comics Chronicles expects that the overall total for comics, graphic novels, and magazines sold to … Read more