Sales Charts: Top Ten Most Popular Comics on GlobalComix the week of 4/18/24
Announcing the start of a new feature here at the Beat: weekly listings of the Top Ten Most Popular comics on GlobalComix.
Tilting at Windmills #297: Bookscan 2023 – comics sales sag but Scholastic was still...
Marvel and DC had tough years in 2023, while Scholastic made up nearly 40% of book store sales for comics
Helen of Wyndhorn #1 sells out and is getting a second printing
Helen of Wyndhorn, the Gothic/pulp series by Tom King and Bilquis Evely, has sold out its first printing at the distributor, and a second printing is on the way
Sales Chart: Silver Sprocket’s Top 500 Indie Bestsellers of 2023
San Francisco's Silver Sprocket presents it top 500 selling indie comics titles, with comparative data
THUNDERCATS #1 orders hit 170,000 copies
Retailers really like Thundercats! The first issue has over 170,000 copies ordered, buoyed by a Rob LIefeld variant
Sales Charts: Adult Graphic Novel Sales fell 22.4% in bookstores in 2023
Overall, book sales fell only 2.6% in bookstores in 2023, but adult graphic novels were down a whopping 22.4%, PW reports
The latest HEARTSTOPPER smashed the British graphic novel sales record in just three days!
The newest volume in Alice Oseman’s powerhouse LGBTQIA+ graphic novel series 'Heartstopper' broke a British record in its first week of sale - becoming the UK’s fastest selling graphic novel ever
TWO comics dominated as France’s best-selling books of 2023
For a third consecutive year, comics have dominated as the bestselling books in France - with two titles holding the top spots
Sales Chart: BookWalker’s Top 50 sellers of ’23
BOOK☆WALKER, Kadokawa’s online portal for buying manga and light novel ebooks has released its top 50 best selling titles for 2023...and isekai reigned supreme once again.
Light novel series Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation by Rifujin...
Sales Breakdown: Top 10 best-selling manga of 2023
Oricon revealed Blue Lock as the best-selling manga series of 2023 in Japan, followed by Jujutsu Kaisen and ONE PIECE. Check out what other series made it to the Top 10 this year!
Comic Book Page Rates again: lower than they were 14 years ago
A former comics editor in chief has posted his starting page rates from 14 years ago, and they're a lot higher than many current rates.
Sales Charts: Wimpy Kid sales decline
Even the mighty Wimpy Kid series show signs of standard attrition, as we take a spin around the sales charts for October
