It’s almost a done deal: 2011 will be the first up year for the comic book direct market since 2008, resuming the trend of the early 2000s and giving the industry nine years of growth out of the past 11. Diamond Comic Distributors released its November Top 100s and Comparative Sales Statistics this morning, … Read more
The estimates for October 2011 comics orders by comics shops in North America are now online here at The Comics Chronicles, and as speculated upon last week when Diamond Comic Distributors provided the first taste of data for this second full month of the DC relaunch, it was a record-setting time in many ways: … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors released its initial report on October 2011 comics orders today, and the numbers reflect a continuing improvement in the Direct Market. Overall, comics retailers in North America spent 11.93% more ordering comic books and trade paperbacks than they did in the previous October. Orders were also up 2.67% over September, which … Read more
On the heels of the first wave of data on comics sales for September 2011, the first full month of the DC relaunch, Diamond Comic Distributors has released the full Top 300 lists for comics and trade paperbacks — and those lists, plus Comichron’s estimates, can be found here. As mentioned in the initial analysis, … Read more
The preliminary comics order data for the direct market in September 2011 is in from Diamond, and it shows the DC reboot led to a double-digit increase in comics unit sales. The overall market netted out down 1%, however, as graphic novel orders sank against strong comparatives — Scott Pilgrim and Walking Dead were … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors today released the full charts for comics ordered by shops in North America for August, and the full estimates are now online here at Comichron. As mentioned yesterday, this month in which most DC comics concluded their continuity in advance of the “New 52” reboot was a very strong one relative to … Read more