Diamond Comic Distributors released its full report for comics shop orders for February 2011, and the figures do hold some interesting facts. As noted here last week, February was a month without all the comparison problems presented by January; publishers were acclimated to the Tuesday shipping window, and we weren’t comparing against an artificially lengthened … Read more
I always strongly caution readers not to read too much into the fluctuations of a single month’s comics orders, and the opening of 2011 has shown us why. As I noted early on and in my final report for January 2011, the first month of this year was one of the noisiest months in … Read more
It took longer than I had intended to get the January 2011 comics sales estimates online; it was a busy month on the other side of my business, with my first novel, Star Wars: Knight Errant, releasing. (In a sense, I was still paying attention to sales charts — just of a non-comics kind!) But … Read more
The Top 100 comics and trade paperback lists for January 2011 are out, along with Diamond Comic Distributors’ aggregate month-to-month and year-to-year comparisons. Sales are off considerably against January 2010 and against last month, with double-digit declines for comics dollar sales and trade paperback dollar sales. There’s not enough data inside the lists to say … Read more
Diamond has released its full Top 300 lists for December, as well as posting online its Top 500s for the year, incorporated here and addressed in another post, thus completing the picture for the year. Click to see the Top 300 comics and trades for the month. Preliminary estimates for December were confirmed … Read more
Amid the rollout of end-of-year reports for 2010, Diamond Comic Distributors released its top sellers for December 2010 on Friday, as well as the specific category breakdowns. Find the list of December 2010 top-sellers here. Diamond CEO Steve Geppi had spoken of improvement in the fourth quarter in that end-of-year announcement, and there was a … Read more