by John Jackson Miller The comics industry continued on course to a year of across-the-board sales increases with an October marked by strong performances among new trade paperbacks and hardcovers, according to my analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on November 17. See the charts here. Boosted by such titles as the … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The comics industry hasn’t yet caught up with where it was this time 10 years ago when it comes to comic-book sales — but it’s greatly narrowed, if not erased, that gap with trade paperbacks, according to my analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on October 13. … Read more
by John Jackson Miller In an industry hitting on all cylinders — with year-to-date growth now in every category through July 2006 — it’s orders of single-issues that have generated most of the gains, according to my analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on August 11. See the charts here. A strong … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Comic-book and trade paperback orders in the direct market in June helped the industry continue its winning ways for 2006, according to my analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on July 14. See the charts here. Despite June 2006 having one less shipping week than June 2005, the … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Comic-book orders in the direct market in May were higher than they have been in nearly a decade, according to my analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on June 16. See the charts here. Among Diamond’s Top 300 comics, unit orders were up 23% over last May, and … Read more
by John Jackson Miller No one ever really dies in comics — and now the “dead quarter,” when comics sales traditionally go into hibernation, isn’t dead any more, either. Retailers ordered at least a million more comic books in the first quarter of 2006 than in the first quarter of 2005, according to my analysis … Read more