Well, not really — but resuming the process of posting prior months of data on the site, all of the Diamond estimates for 2003 are now online, starting with January. This completes all of the months for which Diamond Final Orders are known, which Diamond Comic Distributors began releasing in February 2003. But 2003 is … Read more
I’ve been needing to get this online into the FAQ section of the site for some time — there actually was one before my old database imploded last year — but it comes up enough that it’s worth a permanent note, in addition to the material listed under “The Fine Print” here in various places … Read more
The February 2009 comics sales figures are now online here at The Comics Chronicles — later than planned due to various circumstances, but nonetheless showing a market that seems to be hanging in there, at least as compared with the general economy. While losing ground against the same month in 2008, the month nonetheless looks … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors released the full charts for its February 2009 comics orders today; the estimates will be along later as I’m traveling this week, but you can see the raw Top 300s and the market shares on the newly updated February 2009 page. I won’t speculate as to what the numbers might work out … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Though probably not unprecedented, an incredibly rare thing happened in February 2009: The #1 comic book from the previous month charted in the top spot again. Diamond Comic Distributors‘ early wave of data on February 2009 comics sales, reported on Comichron here — finds Amazing Spider-Man #583 in the top spot … Read more
Since posting about what webcomics creators were seeing on GoogleTrends, I’ve received several chunks of detailed reporting from established webcomics producers agreeing with those who said GoogleTrends’ measurements were off on the low side, and by a great degree. Even when compared with information in Google’s own Google Analytics service, which, as Google says, it … Read more