This morning, Diamond Comic Distributors released its detailed report on comics and graphic novels ordered by North American comics shops in December, and here at Comichron we’ve completed our estimates based on it. Click to see our comics sales estimates for December 2016. I wrote yesterday about December and how its lackluster performance nonetheless brought … Read more
As projected here a ways back, comics shop orders of comic books, graphic novels, and magazines finished up for the year, just barely, after a fourth quarter that lost much of the momentum gained in a strong summer. That’s according to my preliminary analysis of retailer orders just released by Diamond Comic Distributors, which found … Read more
The final report on comics sales to the Direct Market will surface this week, but here’s a nice thing: whatever happens, the entire comics and graphic novel market will be up for 2016, yet again. That’s the nugget of news from Publisher’s Weekly today as turned up by The Beat: while sales of books were … Read more
Since 1960 when the U.S. Postal Service began requiring publications that shipped Second Class (now Periodical Class) to include circulation data in their annual Statements of Ownership, Management, and Circulation, comics researchers have been collecting them; I currently have 3,854 out of a projected 4,100, with the remaining balance mostly in Charlton and Harvey titles … Read more
In the midst of the last comics recession in 2010, DC embarked upon a plan to cut page counts by two pages (from 22 to 20) in order to allow a price cut from $3.99 to $2.99. Much remarked upon at the time, it was not the only time price cuts had been employed as … Read more
When it comes to our reports based on data from Diamond Comic Distributors, we’re always careful to say they’re based on sales to retailers by the distributor in North America. We often mention UK and European sales as not being included in Diamond’s monthly tallies — but we don’t often get into why that’s the … Read more