The estimates for comics sales for September 2012 are now online here at The Comics Chronicles, and they complete a quarter that in non-inflation-adjusted dollar terms was the biggest since at least the mid-1990s. North American comics retailers ordered $123.6 million in comic books and graphic novels in the quarter, beating the previous record set … Read more
Question #1 all year has been how the industry’s fall sales would compare with those of 2011, once the Direct Market began comparing its sales with those of the DC relaunch. With the release of the preliminary September 2012 comics sales data from Diamond Comic Distributors, the answer is: so far, so good. While retailer … Read more
The full estimates for Diamond Comic Distributors’ sales of comic books and graphic novels to comic shops in North America for August 2012 are online here at The Comics Chronicles, and as reported here on Friday, the market continued posting substantial gains. With orders of $44.6 million at full retail shipping in August, the market … Read more
For most of the year, the industry has been going like gangbusters — but there’s always been a slight asterisk in that the year-to-year comparatives were against months before the start of the DC relaunch in 2011. With the August data previewed today by Diamond Comic Distributors, we finally hit a comparison with month — … Read more
(REVISED to reflect the separate entry for the Chromium Edition) The full data from Diamond Comic Distributors for July is out, and The Comics Chronicles estimates that the distributor shipped more than 335,000 $3.99 copies of Walking Dead #100 to North American comics shops in July. It’s the highest one-month total for a comic book … Read more
Coinciding with the release of the July jobs report in the United States, Diamond Comic Distributors released its comics sales report for the month — and again, it depicts a comics market in the midst of a robust recovery. Comic book stores ordered approximately $40 million in comic books and graphic novels in the month, … Read more