The final sales report for December is now out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and the sales estimates have been calculated here at Comichron. Click to see the sales estimates for comics ordered in December 2015. We’ve already covered the end-of-year bottom line numbers in our preliminary 2015 post, but now we get to see some … Read more
The comics market’s growth accelerated in 2015, with a strong finish to the year helping to negate a weaker third quarter, according to Comichron’s analysis of end-of-year data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Comics retailers ordered more than $579 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines from Diamond in 2015, beating last year’s total … Read more
According to new estimate by ICv2 and Comichron The comics and graphic novel market hit another new high for the century in 2014, and a new high since the mid-90s, according to a new joint estimate by Comichron’s John Jackson Miller and ICv2’s Milton Griepp. Total comics and graphic novel sales to consumers in the … Read more
With today’s release of December comics orders from Diamond Comic Distributors — and our subsequent analysis and estimates for December 2014 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 2014. Click to see them. The tables are … Read more
The final comics sales charts for December have been released by Diamond Comic Distributors, and as reported here on Friday, Batman #37 from DC as the top-selling comic book of the month. Comichron estimates that the issue finished with orders of more than 113,000 copies, one of only three titles to reach six figures. Click … Read more
The missing pieces from the sales picture for comics in 2014, December’s comics orders, were provided today by Diamond Comic Distributors — and they depict a market that closed out the year on a positive note. It is, in fact, probably more positive than it looks. Meanwhile, we have a curious situation in that while … Read more