Random notes of note: • Darcey McLaughlin‘s Geek World blog in the Miracmichi Leader continues to delve into the 1990s boom and bust, getting this time into the comic shop glut and its factors. The numbers back then are of course enormous, although I was heartened (and a little surprised) to read that Moncton, New … Read more
The Top 300 comics and Top 300 trade estimates for November are now online, subject, as you’ll learn in a moment, to change. As noted earlier here, Diamond made a number of changes in the rollout of its charts this month, including the very important increase from reporting the Top 100 trade paperbacks to the … Read more
Diamond’s new reporting for this month continues: After a web post of the Top 100 trades yesterday, the media release includes indexed figures for the Top 300 Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels, a three-fold increase bringing the TPB reporting in line with the Top Comics list. It is unknown whether this is intended to be … Read more
And Diamond now has posted more charts on its website: the Top 100 comics for November, the Market Shares, the Top 50 Manga, and something called the Top 50 Independent Comics chart. I am told that the full charts are still yet to come. The manga are, as in previous such lists, not indexed. The … Read more
About a week before Diamond Comic Distributors would customarily release its Top 300 Comics and Top 100 Trade Paperbacks lists for November, it has announced the Top 10 sellers in each category and the top five publisher market shares. Elissa Lynch at Diamond has confirmed for The Comics Chronicles that this list is preparatory to, … Read more
And the posting of earlier months continues — this time with the full year 2004 and then back to fill in the end of 2003 for good measure. This is the year with Identity Crisis and “Avengers Disassembled,” culminating in December with New Avengers #1. February 2004 marked the first month that Diamond released indexed … Read more