Image Comics Month-to Month Sales December 2016: Careless Whisper
by David Carter
Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at Image Comics's sales figures.
Please refer to the July 2015 column for...
DC Comics Month-to Month Sales Chart December 2016: Comic Readers vs. Retailer Incentive Variants
David Carter dives in DC's December 2016 sales!
The complicated history of the NY Times dissing graphic novels on their bestsellers lists
The publishing industry is still in shock over the New York Times' sudden decision to remove several of their bestseller lists – all done without...
12 Million Graphic Novels Were Sold in Bookstores in 2016
OKAY one more chart. Publishers Weekly has more information on the Bookscan bookstore sales numbers, with a breakdown by genre. As we reported last week,...
Wimpy Kid and Big Nate among the most checked out library books in 2016
Quartz has an infographic, charts and more to tell us what the most checked out books - by city - were in 2016. They...
Boom! Studios Month-to-Month Sales November 2016: Go go Power Rangers!
by Duke Harrington
Continuing our look at November 2016 sales (to retailers) from the smaller publishers in the North American comic book market, it’s time...
Dark Horse Month to Month Sales November 2016: Serenity it is
by Duke Harrington
According to data from Diamond Distributers, and the monthly sales charts compiled ICv2.com and Comichron.com, Dark Horse Comics is America’s fifth largest...
The Walking Dead #163 is the biggest selling comic in nearly 20 years
Image has announced that with 730,000 copies ordered, February's THE WALKING DEAD #163 is the Direct Market’s highest ordered comic in nearly 20 years, a feat...
Diamond: Marvel and Love is Love leads a flat December
Marvel led DC again in the ongoing Big Two battle, but overall numbers show that comics and GN sales in 2016 were essentially flat...
Month-to-Month Sales November 2016: IDW hits with Batman/TMNT
by Duke Harrington
I’m a big fan of the monthly sales chart found over on The Beat. But while I seem to remember them covering...
Retailing update: the danger of pull lists, “Team Comics My Ass” and best seller...
Yesterday this tweet from Spirit of Retailing award winner Packrat Comics was going around:
https://twitter.com/Packrat_Comics/status/818961318694809600
with a cosign from Atlas comics
https://twitter.com/AtlasComics/status/819004717065977856
"Pull lists" are really a symptom...
Image Comics Month-to Month Sales: November 2016 – Walking Dead, Revival, Reborn, and now...
Image shipped 48 comics in November (a low number for them, even with it being a five-Wednesday month), compared to 55 in October and 52 in September. They shipped 62 in November 2015.
