This morning, Diamond Comic Distributors released its detailed report on comics and graphic novels ordered by North American comics shops in December, and here at Comichron we’ve completed our estimates based on it. Click to see our comics sales estimates for December 2016. I wrote yesterday about December and how its lackluster performance nonetheless brought … Read more
Estimates have been calculated by Comichron for comic books shipped to North American retailers last month by Diamond Comic Distributors; click to see the estimates for November 2016. As mentioned here on Friday, it was a softer month for a number of reasons. The volume of new comics releases went down from October despite the … Read more
Publishers always look to November as a time for graphic novels, and that was the case this month in what is almost certainly record fashion: Diamond Comic Distributors shipped 436 new graphic novels in November 2016 — while on the periodical side, the market-leading publishers didn’t increase their output to take advantage of a fifth … Read more
The Comichron estimates are now available for comics and graphic novels shipped by Diamond Comic Distributors in October, and as reported here Friday, we saw a mild increase in overall sales during the month driven in part by a much larger slate of new items. Click to see the detailed comics sales estimates for October … Read more
Well, we thought we were done with it. After an absence from the sales rankings of more than a year, the repackaging service Loot Crate again in October vaulted an unlikely lead comic book atop Diamond Comic Distributors chart of best-selling comics. Boom Studios‘ Big Trouble in Little China/Escape from New York #1, in addition … Read more
Even as the Great Recession was raging, average comics cover prices continued to increase until 2010, when DC rolled back most of its line from $3.99 to $2.99. The move was, to paraphrase one insider, one of the most popular yet least financially successful moves the publisher had tried; even with the price drop, comics … Read more