According to new estimate by Comichron and ICV2 The market for comics and graphic novels in the U.S. and Canada reached $870 million at retail last year, according to a new estimate prepared jointly by ICv2’s Milton Griepp and Comichron’s John Jackson Miller. “I’ve been networking with Milton on questions of the numbers underlying the … Read more
With today’s release of December comics orders from Diamond Comic Distributors — and our subsequent analysis and estimates for December 2013 comics sales now posted — Comichron has drawn upon that information to project estimates for the Top Thousand Comics and the Top Thousand Graphic Novels for 2013. The tables are on the page just … Read more
The final comics sales estimates for December are out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and as reported here on Friday, the Direct Market closed out the year up 9%. Click to see the sales estimates for comics ordered in December 2013. Origin II #1 was the top-selling comic book of the month; at 131,700 copies, it … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors released the preliminary 2013 year-end data on Wednesday; now, it has added the closing chapter of the sales year with the preliminary sales report for December. Retailers ordered $42.22 million in comic books and graphic novels in December, a sum almost identical to that of November. Less than $9,000, or the sales … Read more
In advance of the larger releases of its December and 2013 year-end sales tables, Diamond Comic Distributors has released a sneak peek at the topline figures for the year. Comic shop orders for comic books and graphic novels in North America reportedly increased by 9.04% over 2012. It’s a smaller increase than last year’s 14.72% … Read more
It came to be a truism in the early 2000s that any month in which graphic novel sales were leading the Direct Market was likely to have been a blah month overall. Nothing against graphic novels, which added an important and large new revenue stream; but the dollar volume for periodicals was so much higher … Read more