With the release of 2018 end-of-year comics orders from Diamond Comic Distributors, Comichron has drawn upon that information to project estimates for the Top Thousand Comics and the Top Thousand Graphic Novels for 2018. The tables are on the page just beneath the image links to individual months. This year’s charts have our sorting and searching … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its annual top-sellers list for 2018, and the entries are basically as we had projected them here through November at Comichron — and our projected dollar market shares were spot-on. We also got from the data a little information about what sold in December. To no one’s surprise, April’s Action Comics #1000 … 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
While comics shop orders during the month of August 2017 were down in all categories versus last August’s blockbuster, we’ve finally found a book that’s been able to top a mark set in that summer of DC Rebirth launches. And it’s another DC book: Comichron estimates that Diamond Comic Distributors shipped almost exactly 262,000 copies … Read more
Comichron’s estimates are now online for comics and graphic novels shipped in January by Diamond Comic Distributors, and while a number of elements make analyzing this month trickier than usual, the month’s $40.1 million performance doesn’t look too far out of line with what we’ve come to expect from winter months in the past when … Read more
In the rules of golf, if a ball is lost in the woods, the player continues with a “provisional ball.” If the original ball is found within a limited time, the original is the one played; if not, the player takes a penalty and continues with the provisional ball as if it were the original. … Read more