Combined comics and graphic novel sales hit a new high in the pandemic year of 2020, according to a new joint estimate by ICv2’s Milton Griepp and Comichron’s John Jackson Miller. Total comics and graphic novel sales to consumers in the U.S. and Canada were approximately $1.28 billion in 2020, a 6% increase over sales … Read more
When Diamond paused its monthly retail sales charts (and it apparently is just a pause) this winter, we also paused our DC rankings, since it’s usually better to do both sets at once. But since they’re ready, let’s get rolling again with four months of DC order rankings! As a refresher: Our DC rankings are … Read more
We resumed unit sales estimates with our September 2020 report, introducing several new workflows to the process; for the following month’s report, we’ve added even more as we seek to unlock the limited information released by comics distributors in the months following the Shutdown Split. Our Combined Comics Sales for October 2020 page is now … Read more
After some delay associated with implementation of yet more new procedures, our projections for DC comics sales to retailers in October 2020 are now online. Batman: Three Jokers #3 completed the trifecta, with the title leading for its third consecutive month. Noteworthy is the fact that DC only released 49 new comics books in October … Read more
The portion of the comics market represented by Diamond Comic Distributors continued its post-shutdown recovery in October, with the distributor shipping what Comichron projects to be nearly 5.5 million comic books, graphic novels, and magazines to North American accounts, including a little over 5.1 million comic books. Click to see the full Top 500s for … Read more
Last week, Diamond released its Top 500 lists, as well as its market shares — and between the two, plus our own research, we’ve been able to generate something we haven’t had here for six months: unit sales estimates for comics. They appear first on the Diamond charts for September 2020 page, which preserves the … Read more