Batman and Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers lead March Sales
Marvel remained the #1 publisher accoridng to sales figures just released by Diamond, but they lost some of their dollar share from February, as...
DC Comics Month-to Month Sales February 2016: Late the Dark Knights Fall!
The return of Justice League and Dark Knight III helped bolster DC Comics' flagging sales in February, but will it be enough to sustain them in the long term?
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales February 2016: The Marvel Universe Caught a Cold!
Marvel may need a bit more than a "bless you" to recover from this illness.
Image Comics Sales Chart: Just how many books has the Walking Dead sold?
The Comics Beat's Image sales analyst takes a look at how their trade paperbacks have sold over the years and discloses some astounding findings!
What’s a Hit Comic Sell These Days? Over 40K for Marvel, Over 30K...
Yes, the *total* number of comics sold in a month still sounds impressive, but what about the individual books? It's time to check in...
February sales numbers are out and if you’re the worrying kind, plenty of fodder
The comics sales estimator cabal did their work yesterday and the analysis of February's sales was not good. Via ICv2: February Comics and Graphic...
Sales Chart: Scholastic was the #1 graphic novel publisher in bookstores and more from...
Comics Experience owner Brian Hibbs has done his annual service to the industry byanalyzing the yearly graphic novels sales charts as reported to Bookscan. This is information people normally pay thousands of dollars for so it is technically leaked info, but while it's there let's take advantage of it. As Hibbs points out, these numbers do not reflect comics shops, indie bookstores, book fair or libraries, to name but four huge outlets for GN sales. So they are not complete. However they are a metric , and one that's worth studying.
Image Comics Month-to-Month Sales: January 2016 – Point of Know Return
Gaze upon my works, ye mighty...
Diamond: Dark Knight III leads February sales charts but questions remain
Marvel continued its dominance of DC, although by a lesser margin than January, when DC's dollars/units were literally half of Marvel's. However Dark Knight...
Unbalanced Production: The Comics Business in the 1940s
by Carol Tilley
The business of early comic book publishing in the US is something of a black box: too little data about actual practices,...
Surprise! Raina Telgemeier tops indie bookstore graphic novels sales
While researching the previous item, I cam across this every other month chart of graphic novel bestsellers in indie bookstores, via the ABA. It's about what you'd expect, with Raina Telegemeier and Allie Brosh, Noelle Stevenson, Kate Beaton and Saga reigning supreme. In other words, the unstoppable forces of mainstream comics acceptance. A little surprised that no Walking Dead on there, but the new season hadn't debuted when this chart was made.
