Earlier this week in advance of the release of the Diamond Comic Distributors preliminary sales report for October 2017, I tweeted that the same month last year would be very hard to beat, even with Marvel’s Legacy event and DC’s Dark Multiverse storyline underway. The second best month of 2016 in the Direct Market, October 2016 had … Read more
Just back from New York Comic-Con, an amazingly busy event — and while attendance numbers have not been released, the outside observer certainly wouldn’t have suspected it was taking place in a year in which comics and graphic novel orders had been, through September, down 10% in the Direct Market, as was reported here … Read more
I had mentioned on Twitter earlier this week that while last September was a strong month for the Direct Market thanks to DC’s Rebirth program, the month’s sales levels offered a relatively reachable target. While information released today by Diamond Comic Distributors shows that September 2017 comics and graphic novel orders, at $43.52 million, fell … Read more
Full-line relaunches of the scale DC engineered in 2016 with “Rebirth” and 2011 with the “New 52” are colossal market-distorting moments, making a hash of the comparative statistics both when their sales are reported, and when any future month’s sales are later compared with them. It takes a while for a revamped line to find … Read more
As described here on Friday, the Direct Market slowdown accelerated into July, as North American comic shop orders could not keep up with the blistering pace set by DC’s Rebirth a year before, according to our analysis based on data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see our comics sales estimates for July 2017. … Read more
The pace of comics and graphic novel orders by North American comics shops worsened in July, according to data released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. Shipments for comic books, graphic novels, and magazines only reached a little over $40.76 million. That’s down more than 19% from last year’s blockbuster month for DC, when the publisher … Read more