Diamond Comic Distributors has released on its site its lists of Top 500 Comics and Top 500 trade paperbacks and graphic novels for 2010, following up its release of just the Top 10s last week. As I did last year, I have combined that information with my own estimates of aggregated sales of comics and … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors announced today that annual sales of comic books, graphic novels, and magazines to the comic book specialty market declined slightly in 2010, down 3.5% from 2009. The report for December hasn’t been made public yet, but The Comics Chronicles expects that the overall total for comics, graphic novels, and magazines sold to … Read more
It’s the week for end-of-year lists — but as Diamond Comics Distributors won’t release its December sales figures until later next week, the comics year isn’t over. (It’s probable that Avengers #1 will be the top seller for the year, but we’ll see.) So instead I present not one, but three end-of-year lists — from … Read more
With the aid of research assistant par excellence T.M. Haley, we now have all the months of 2002 online here at The Comics Chronicles, as well as, for the first time, Diamond’s end of year list for the Top 100 Comic Books and Trade Paperbacks for the year, which differs some from the monthly reports … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Following up on our report on direct market sales for 2009, Diamond has released Top 500 charts for both comics and trade paperbacks for the year. Those charts appear here on Comichron, along with our own estimates for what each of those titles likely sold. “Comic book and … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley With Diamond Comic Distributors soon to announce its 2009 year-end sellers and market shares, The Comics Chronicles is also beginning to post some of Diamond’s year-end tables from previous years, beginning with 2007. More years will be soon to follow. Some years have a full 300 entries; earlier … Read more