{"id":4144,"date":"2017-11-06T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:14:52","slug":"comichron-visits-off-panel-podcast-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/comichron-visits-off-panel-podcast-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Comichron visits the Off Panel podcast: A look at the numbers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NumbersGame-1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1200\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>This month begins my twenty-fifth year of covering the comics industry professionally (for those counting, that means the actual anniversary is November 2018), and I speak about a number of the datasets that I&#8217;ve been developing over the years on <b><a href=\"http:\/\/sktchd.com\/podcast\/off-panel-126-numbers-game-with-john-jackson-miller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the new Off Panel podcast <\/a><\/b>with <b>David Harper<\/b> of SKTCHD.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wide-ranging discussion, looking at the difference between distributor shipment figures and overall sales, touching on comic book variants and how they&#8217;ve changed over the years, and getting into the importance of having circulation figures to both retailers and the aftermarket. There&#8217;s also some discussion of current market conditions \u2014 and many references to baseball statistics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month begins my twenty-fifth year of covering the comics industry professionally (for those counting, that means the actual anniversary is November 2018), and I speak about a number of the datasets that I&#8217;ve been developing over the years on the new Off Panel podcast with David Harper of SKTCHD. It&#8217;s a wide-ranging discussion, looking &#8230; <a title=\"Comichron visits the Off Panel podcast: A look at the numbers game\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/comichron-visits-off-panel-podcast-look\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Comichron visits the Off Panel podcast: A look at the numbers game\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,53],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured","tag-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6317,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/6317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}