The full report will follow later — an exceptionally busy month here — but the April 2009 sales charts are online here. As expected, they report a significant rebound, helping the market to recover some of the ground lost in the first part of the year. There are also some other factors of interest, about … Read more
The March 2009 sales estimates are now online here — later than planned due to various other projects, which also mean that some of the usual historical analysis will be staggered over the next little while as well. Trade paperback sales (both frontlist and backlist) brought March 2009 almost equal in overall dollars to March … Read more
The March 2009 analysis is still coming together, and will be along here soon. The market seems to be holding up better than the general retail economy, though the top book of the month does appear to have nudged under the 100,000-copy threshhold. That said, this is an event deserving of some wider context, which … Read more
March 2009 will be remembered in comics history annals as the month of the Watchmen movie release; and, indeed, the trade paperback again appeared at the top of the trade charts, according to the preliminary report on comics sales to retailers released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. The basic information appears in this posting, but … 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