by John Jackson Miller Diamond Comic Distributors released its sales rankings today, and unusually I was able to attend to the math right away and generate the estimates for April 2008. Overall, the comics industry fared better against last April — but only overall. Comparatives in the narrower categories remain slightly down, even considering this … Read more
by John Jackson Miller I’ll be saving the more lengthy analysis for the Newsarama column coming up, but the tables with my raw estimates for March can be found here. I will say here that while it is a soft month, it’s one that’s following a year after a blockbuster March — and the first … Read more
by John Jackson Miller It will be a bit yet before the calculations appear here (New York Comicon took everyone’s weekend, along with my voice) but for the curious, here are the vanilla rankings for the Diamond Top 300, released today. This is raw — no clean-up work, no formatting. The “ratio” is the number … Read more
by John Jackson Miller I’m off to New York Comicon (signing at the Dark Horse booth from 4-5 Friday, otherwise out and about, or at Marc Patten’s booth) — which will be the answer to your question “Where are the March figures?” Diamond has not released them at this writing, but I would expect them … Read more
by John Jackson Miller My Newsarama feature for the month appears here (with lots of cool historical comparatives), and the charts and graphs here are updated, as well. X-Force #1 led the top-selling comics list in February: TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES February 2008: 6.26 million copies Versus 1 year ago this month: -5% Versus … Read more
by John Jackson Miller In a rare move, Diamond has done a full rerelease of statistics for January, addressing some of the curiosities noted in earlier posts below. Click to see my new calculations for January. It does appear Diamond included some orders in their initial report that aren’t in this one; unless they’re absolutely … Read more