According to new estimate by ICV2 and Comichron The comics and graphic novel market slipped 6.5% in 2017, with sharper declines in comic store and newsstand sales mitigated by stronger sales in the book channel and digital, according to a new joint estimate by ICv2’s Milton Griepp and Comichron’s John Jackson Miller. Total comics and … Read more
A new report from Publisher’s Weekly reports that the graphic novel category was off 5% in units in stores and at online retailers reporting to Bookscan in 2017, as compared with a 11% increase in 2016. The category saw a drop from 11.94 to 11.33 million copies moved. The Bookscan total requires some massaging, as always: … Read more
With the release of December comics orders from Diamond Comic Distributors — and our subsequent analysis of and estimates for December 2017 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 2017. The tables are on the page … Read more
A big change, as the headline says, but first the news: As reported here Friday, after five consecutive years of growth following DC’s “New 52” reboot, the Direct Market gave back some of those gains in 2017 — and December served as a lackluster finish to a disappointing year. Overall, Direct Market orders finished the … Read more
In the 21st Century, growth — and sometimes rapid growth — in the comics Direct Market has often been the rule. Following the complete collapse of the mid- and late-1990s, retailer orders for comic books and graphic novels increased in 2001-2008 and from 2012-2016, broken up with a three-year recessionary period turned around in mid-2011 … Read more
DC’s Doomsday Clock #1 took both the first and second spots on the new comics sales charts in November, its sales divided almost exactly in half between its lenticular and standards editions. Comichron estimates that North American retailer orders for the two versions combined for nearly 239,000 copies, making the issue one of the year’s … Read more