It’s time to take a look at the sales distribution charts of Image and the other independent publishers for January. Standard disclaimers: The numbers are based on the Diamond sales charts as estimated by the very reliable John Jackson Miller. These charts are pretty accurate for U.S. Direct Market sales with the following caveats: 1) you […]
What’s Fresh Start Supposed to Fix? Marvel’s Sales Distribution Chart for January 2018
Marvel is next up for our look at the sales distribution charts for January 2018. Standard disclaimers: The numbers are based on the Diamond sales charts as estimated by the very reliable John Jackson Miller. These charts are pretty accurate for U.S. Direct Market sales with the following caveats: 1) you can add ~10% for UK […]
Some Tepid Debut Issues – DC’s Sales Distribution Chart for January 2018
It’s time to take a look at the sales distribution charts and see where things fall in the market for January 2018. As usual, we’ll start with DC. Standard disclaimers: The numbers are based on the Diamond sales charts as estimated by the very reliable John Jackson Miller. These charts are pretty accurate for U.S. Direct […]
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: December 2017 – No Tears for Batman
The biggest surprise in the December Diamond-NA comics chart is not that DC has five of the top six comics (and six of the top ten), or that DC & Marvel are in a virtual tie for market share (DC edges out Marvel for dollar share, while Marvel edges out DC for unit share), or even that DC is maintaining strong sales of both Dark Nights Metal & Doomsday Clock.
NY Times Ignores 400 Publishing Industry Pros’ Pleas to Return Graphic Novel Bestseller Chart
About a year ago the New York Times shocked the publishing industry by dropping 11 of its bestseller charts for books. Some were for rather arcane formats – YA ebooks – others were low class formats – mass market paperbacks. But only one entire medium was ditched completely: graphic novels, hardcover and paperback and manga, were […]
January sales: DC and Doomsday Clock stay on top
DC and Marvel swapped places atop the January sales charts just released by Diamond comics. Marvel Comics was January’s top publisher in dollars with a 34.30% retailer dollar share and a 36.69% unit share. But DC led in units shipped with a 38.94% unit share and a 33.80% retailer dollar share. Doomday Clock #3 was […]
The Top 20 Graphic Novels of 2017 Prove Diversity in Comics is Alive and Well and Selling a Lot
This year’s best selling graphic novels show a wide range of material from a strikingly diverse group of creators.
Phoenix Rises, The Rest? Not Really. Marvel’s Sales Distribution For December 2017.
And now it’s time to look at the Marvel sales distribution charts for December 2017. Standard disclaimers: The numbers are based on the Diamond sales charts as estimated by the very reliable John Jackson Miller. These charts are pretty accurate for U.S. Direct Market sales with the following caveats: 1) you can add ~10% for UK […]
Bendis Can’t Get Here Fast Enough – DC’s Sales Distribution Chart for December 2017
It’s time to take a look at the sales distribution charts and see where things fall in the market for December 2017. As usual, we’ll start with DC. Standard disclaimers: The numbers are based on the Diamond sales charts as estimated by the very reliable John Jackson Miller. These charts are pretty accurate for U.S. Direct […]
Dark Horse’s Digital Wing Hits Higher Than Marvel – Comixology Vs. Print Chart for the Week of 1/24
Continuing our look at how the Comixology sales ranks relate to the Diamond print estimates, here’s how things looked last week. The initial methodology is to compare the current issue on the Comixology top 20 chart (issues pulled the evening of 1/28) with the last issue we have print sales estimates for, usually this is from […]