February 2013 orders for comics and graphic novels continued to outpace sales of a year ago, according to preliminary direct market sales data released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. The 10% increase year-to-year is made more impressive by the fact that the comparison month was a very rare leap year February with five shipping weeks. … Read more
As reported here Friday, January comics sales performed the rare feat of beating December’s sales; now, with the release of new data from Diamond Comic Distributors, we can see the numbers behind the headline. Click to see Comichron’s comics sales estimates for January 2013. As also noted Friday, despite the calendar, January is a four … Read more
In a move that sent me back to the archives to examine its scale, comics shop orders of comic books and collected editions from Diamond Comic Distributors jumped more than 27%, or nearly $9 million, year-over-year in January. And this January even beat December’s total by 3%, the largest margin for January over December in … Read more