Just back from Baltimore Comicon and the Diamond Retailer Summit, where it was great to talk about the industry with a lot of very smart people — including the folks that have generated the sales charts studied here for years. And the beat goes on — with the rollout of Top 10 lists and market … Read more
The sales estimates for August 2009 are now online here; thanks for your patience. August with its four ship weeks managed to look a lot like July with its five, which in recession-ese means “steady as she goes” once again. The dollar value of all Marvels ordered in the Top 300 Comics and Top 300 … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors rolled out the full charts for sales of its Top 300 Comic Books and Trade Paperbacks to retailers today; it will be a while before I have the analysis with sales estimates online, but you can see the full charts now, along with the order index numbers. Full market shares also appear; … Read more
It’s that time again. Diamond Comic Distributors started the monthly roll-out of comics sales information today with its release of the top ten sellers in the month of August for several categories. DC‘s Blackest Night, which came in second place last month to Marvel’s Captain America: Reborn #1, claimed the top slot with its second … Read more
The summer seems to be breathing some life back into comics sales figures in several categories, according to The Comics Chronicles analysis of July 2009 comics ordered from Diamond Comic Distributors. The decline in Top 300 comics unit sales has slowed, and we picked up a few points in Top 300 comics dollars, thanks to … Read more
A lot of things put off finishing the calculations this month — half the industry is in San Diego, and I’ve busy promoting my new projects (both my new Star Wars ebook and news of my new Mass Effect series were released this week). As it is, I’ll be doing the usual comics-sales-through-history notes in … Read more