The Beat’s Year in Review
Quick note: I am interviewed over in Heidi MacDonald’s 2010 Year-in-Review, covering some elements regarding the health of the industry this past year and touching on the role of the growing digital market.
Top comics of the year — for 1992, 1993, and 1994!
It’s the week for end-of-year lists — but as Diamond Comics Distributors won’t release its December sales figures until later next week, the comics year isn’t over. (It’s probable that Avengers #1 will be the top seller for the year, but we’ll see.) So instead I present not one, but three end-of-year lists — from … Read more
November sales actually up, though prices were too
November was the second month for which Diamond published percentage change information for its overall comics and trade paperback sales — and a number of kinks are still being worked out of the process. Many (but not all) are on my end, as you’ll read — and as such, it took about three weeks in … Read more
Flashback Friday: NYT on “Heroes Reborn”
No time for a longer flashback today, but with the New York Times moving much content back behind a paywall in January, now is probably a good time to search for any of those comics articles you’d like to see before the change. I was amused to find an interview with me from September 1996, … Read more
Flashback Friday: Xander in Lost Universe
A brief flashback today on a title that had a brief run: Gene Roddenberry’s Xander in Lost Universe, a part of the Tekno-Comix line from 1995. A part of Big Entertainment, Tekno-Comix was a short-lived attempt to build series around the names and concepts of celebrities ranging from Leonard Nimoy to John Jakes. It … Read more
Amazon gives Bookscan data access to authors
BookScan, the A.C. Nielsen service that tracks book sales using point-of-purchase information in thousands of bookstores — plus online sales from Amazon — has now made its sales data available through Amazon. If you’re the book’s author, that is. As the Los Angeles Times also reports, Amazon has added a Sales Data tab to the … Read more