by John Jackson Miller I’ll be saving the more lengthy analysis for the Newsarama column coming up, but the tables with my raw estimates for March can be found here. I will say here that while it is a soft month, it’s one that’s following a year after a blockbuster March — and the first … Read more
by John Jackson Miller It will be a bit yet before the calculations appear here (New York Comicon took everyone’s weekend, along with my voice) but for the curious, here are the vanilla rankings for the Diamond Top 300, released today. This is raw — no clean-up work, no formatting. The “ratio” is the number … Read more
by John Jackson Miller My Newsarama feature for the month appears here (with lots of cool historical comparatives), and the charts and graphs here are updated, as well. X-Force #1 led the top-selling comics list in February: TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES February 2008: 6.26 million copies Versus 1 year ago this month: -5% Versus … Read more
by John Jackson Miller In a rare move, Diamond has done a full rerelease of statistics for January, addressing some of the curiosities noted in earlier posts below. Click to see my new calculations for January. It does appear Diamond included some orders in their initial report that aren’t in this one; unless they’re absolutely … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The comics industry saw its seventh consecutive year of increased sales to comics shops in 2007. Sales to retailers increased in every category tracked, including comic book units, which rose 4% to their highest level since 1997. Overall, Diamond Comic Distributors‘ sales of comic books and trade paperbacks to comics shops … Read more
by John Jackson Miller November orders for the comics industry slipped versus the same month last year for comic books, but were up strongly for trade paperbacks. Sales figures for the month appear here. Unit and dollar sales for the Top 300 comics were down 13% and 12% respectively; this November had four shipping weeks … Read more