One of the missions of Comichron is to educate about the comic-book market in North America, from its history to its current state — and something that’s always been on the wish list is a video component. So I’m pleased to announce that we finally have a YouTube channel launched, and two videos to start … Read more
For years, we’ve had pages on Comichron collecting not just the #1 comic books ordered each month from Diamond Comic Distributors, but also the 300th-place titles, at the far end of the charts. The latter have always been a useful indicator when it comes to evaluating how much depth there is to sales; while volumes … Read more
As part of our ongoing renovations, we’re building out our FAQ section to give permanent homes to a lot of the primers and essays once found as blog posts here. Some of the pages there are among our most popular: The Best-Selling Comic Book of All Time A look at X-Men Vol. 2, #1 (1991), … Read more
The end-of-year comics sales figures will be out in the next few weeks, as well as the December sales reports, and as mentioned here before, 2012 looks to have been an outstanding year, with major gains for comics in both the print direct market and digital space. I’ll begin analyzing the figures as soon as … Read more
Two months from today marks five years online for The Comics Chronicles, and while I’ve gotten a lot of comics history on the site in that time, some of the site’s own history has been absent. A database crash in August 2008 took out all the blog posts from before that time, and while I … Read more
As a new decade dawned for comics shops, Marvel’s Siege #1 was first off the UPS truck — and first in the preliminary rankings released by Diamond Comic Distributors for January orders. Comics shops ordered more copies of the new Marvel event title in a month that did not see a new Blackest Night issue, … Read more