By popular demand, I have added a landing page on Comichron encapsulating the larger publisher market shares as far back as they are known, which is to 1991. You can click to see the annual market shares across time, which will be the permanent home of this material — but I’ll be recapping it all … Read more
One of the sections of the site that I haven’t been able to get to as often as I would like is the Vital Statistics section, with its graphics of comics sales across time in the comics shop market. In fact, as my writing schedule has grown busier, some of the graphics hadn’t been updated … Read more
The graphics section here on the site — including comics market shares across time and unit and dollar comics order trends, both recent and for the entire Diamond Exclusive Era — have been updated. I didn’t intend to let this slide for so long, but other projects intervened. In any event, an addition this time … Read more
Diamond continues its rollout today of the December 2008 comics sales figures, with a release of a longer (and corrected) market share list and the Top 100 Comics. On the December number score: First off, my hunch was correct that the dollar and unit sales columns were reversed in last week’s “sneak peak,” so I’m … Read more
The Diamond charts for September 2008 are out today, and while I will have them here soon, I wanted to produce a supporting document to something mentioned in Michael Doran’s Newsarama piece: whether Marvel’s topping of 50% in the Final Pieces Sold Unit Share category represents a first in the post-bankruptcy era. I don’t often … Read more
On occasion, I look back at the N.W. Ayer & Sons Directory — an annual publication that for more than a century under various names included information on periodicals for the use of advertisers. In addition to publisher addresses and physical dimensions of their ad spaces, the Directories include information from the Audit Bureau of … Read more