Doomsday Clock and Batman lead November sales
Batman crushed it in Diamond's just released sales charts for November, taking 6 of the top 10 slots in periodical sales. Doomsday Clock had...
Report: Kids graphic novel sales up 25% in 2015-16
Graphic novels for children were up 25% in sales between 2015-2016, according to NPD Bookscan's Kristen McLean. IT's part of a continued strength...
Disappointing For a Big Promotion – Marvel’s October 2017 Sales Distribution Chart
Now it’s time for a look at Marvel’s sales distribution charts for October.
Standard disclaimers: The numbers are based on the Diamond sales charts as...
It’s Like People Want To Buy Batman – DC’s October 2017 Sales Distribution Chart
The October sales estimates are out, so it’s time to take a look at the sales distribution charts and see where things fall in...
A Quick Word About Sales Estimates Before We Run the Distribution Charts
Before going into the October sales distribution charts, it’s probably appropriate to talk about what the various charts mean. Jim Zub wrote about how...
October Sales: DC closes the gap with Marvel with Dark Nights
While 2017 is still looking to be a down year, for comics sales, statistics for October sales just released by Diamond Comics distributors show...
More on Jim Zub’s “long tail” for sales and what it means for indie...
The other day we noted that writer Jim Zub had posted some fascinating info about the trade and digital sales of his ongoing series...
Jim Zub on Creator-Owned Economics, trade sales and the surprising impact of Comics Umlimited
Creator Jim Zub has been charting the sales on his Image published titles for a while now and he just gave an update on Wayward complete with the charts and graphs we are so in love with here:
Diamond: Marvel Legacy #1 is biggest book of September
Big time comics events including Marvel Legacy #1 and Dark Nights Metal continued to lead periodical comics sales charts for September, according to the...
NYCC Day 1: Loading Docks, Doritos, Data Points and a little Doomsday Clock
It was a full day of survival and revelations as New York Comic Con 2017 opened. Plus, why Geoff Johns needs to be in R. Sikoryak's Carousel.
Bombshell: BookScan to start measuring sales in comics shops
While we have our BookScan numbers for sell through, and our Diamond estimates of sell-in in comics shops, we haven't had reliable sell THROUGH...
DC Comics Month-to Month Sales: August 2017 – Heavy Metal
I know things look kind of bad, especially the one year comparisons to August 2016. But recall that that month had DC's best first-month sales of the modern Diamond era (the data I have goes back to March 2003). August 2017 was really just back to typical overall sales figures for DC.





















