Comics orders slipped slightly in April, according to Diamond Comic Distributors, but the drop is less than those seen earlier in the year, and the year-to-date gap in dollar sales for comic books and trade paperbacks closed to 6.5%. Marvel’s Fear Itself topped the charts and is likely the only title in six figures (the … Read more
Apologies for the delay in getting the estimated orders for March 2011 comics online here — website maintenance gave way last month to home maintenance, as Wisconsin’s water table decided to come to the surface to take a look around. (Fortunately, your Comichron curator had already learned the lesson of many collectors before him: store … Read more
The unusual situation behind January’s sales reports resulted in a fair-sized gap for the comics industry to close, which it began to do in February. March, however, faced a tougher comparative month from last year — when Blackest Night concluded — and was not able to help regain territory except in the comic unit … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors released its full report for comics shop orders for February 2011, and the figures do hold some interesting facts. As noted here last week, February was a month without all the comparison problems presented by January; publishers were acclimated to the Tuesday shipping window, and we weren’t comparing against an artificially lengthened … Read more
I always strongly caution readers not to read too much into the fluctuations of a single month’s comics orders, and the opening of 2011 has shown us why. As I noted early on and in my final report for January 2011, the first month of this year was one of the noisiest months in … Read more
It took longer than I had intended to get the January 2011 comics sales estimates online; it was a busy month on the other side of my business, with my first novel, Star Wars: Knight Errant, releasing. (In a sense, I was still paying attention to sales charts — just of a non-comics kind!) But … Read more