As well as the comic-book direct market performed in the month of March, the industry underperformed in April, with orders for all comic books, trade paperbacks, and magazines off nearly $10 million, or 24%. The monthly estimates appear here. The mention of the previous month is intentional, as March had five weeks versus the previous … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Brightest Day followed Blackest Night into the top slot on the charts, according to preliminary data released for April by Diamond Comic Distributors. The Top 100 Comics and Trade Paperbacks for April as ordered by comics shops in North America, along with market shares and order index numbers, … Read more
If it takes a quarter of growth to end a recession, count this one over — at least in comics. While the market notched some positive quarters in the wide overall category last year, those gains weren’t always reflected in the narrower categories, like periodical unit sales. This quarter was different. Orders placed for comic … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley DC‘s raise-the-dead event comic book Blackest Night shipped in the last week of March, but interest in the Geoff Johns series was enough to make it the top comic book ordered by comics shops in the month, according to top-sellers lists released by Diamond Comic Distributors. The top-sellers … Read more
Just back from Midsouthcon, where we had some interesting panels on the past, present, and future of comics. So it’ll be a bit before I get all the pieces of the February 2010 report online — the Flashbacks section will be on the way in a bit, and the Overall sales estimate will be refined. … Read more
This time last year, the Obama inaugural issue of Amazing Spider-Man was doing something likely unprecedented for a single issue of a comic book by repeating in the top slot, two months in a row. That didn’t happen this time out, but we did have another repeat of sorts: DC’s Blackest Night, after a month … Read more