DC sinks to half of Marvel’s market share as sales drop in January
There were a lot of drops in January's sales charts -- however, some of them may not have been as steep as they seem.
Marvel's domination of DC increased in January sales figures just released by Diamond, as DC's market share was exactly half of Marvel's. Ouch. Holdin' on for a Rebirth, alright.
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales December 2015: “And Lo, There Shall Be a Rebirth…”
What does Rebirth mean for DC's financial futures?
If you like Amazon sales charts, you’ll love this link
Oh speaking of Amazon, I didn't realize that they have sub categories in all their best seller list now. Thus you can not only see what's selling in the main graphic novel category (answer: coloring books) but in more than a dozen subcategories, such as Manga, Romance Manga, Superheroes and How to Create Comics and Manga.And when you click on some of them, like Publishers, you get sales charts for the top 7 or 8 publishers in one click. (Can you feel teh excitement??!!??)
When you click on Graphic novels you get a Russian nested doll of genre categories, all the way down to zombies.
Graphic Novel sales up 22% in bookstores in 2015
Despite ongoing worries about periodical sales for comics, graphic novels seemed to do just fine in 2015, according to figures reported at Publishers Weekly. Graphic novels sales were up 22% with 10,591,000 copies sold, up from 8,669,000 in 2014.
Image Comics Month-to Month Sales November 2015: The Saga Continues
by David Carter
Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at Image Comics's sales figures.
Just a reminder that I'm not doing this...
Lumberjanes and Young Terrorists led indie graphic novel sales for Diamond in 2015
Diamond has released their total year end charts showing the top 1000 comics and graphic novels and the top 100 in 0ther categories. This is in addition to the overall market information released earlier in the week. We've uploaded them here:
Secret Wars #8 and The Private Eye top December sales
Diamond just released sales charts for December and it was a familiar story: Secret Wars and Brian K Vaughan. In a slight twist, it was The Private Eye, the collected edition of the web-only serial by Vaughan, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente that led GNs and not Saga but, you can the picture.
DC Comics Month-Month Sales November 2015: “All of This has Happened Before…”
Our resident sales analyst David Carter looks into DKIII's BIG debut!
More 2015 sales analysis: two-thirds of Diamond sales are comic books
By John Jackson Miller
The comics market's growth accelerated in 2015, with a strong finish to the year helping to negate a weaker third quarter,...
Will 2016 be bleh, meh, or somewhere in between for comics sales?
2015 was a great year for comics, but comics sales were generally up in single digits, which is not a bad thing, but less...
Wars and Loot Crate ruled 2015 single issue comics sales
The Hollywood Reporter and Comichron put together a list of
2015's best selling single issues, based on estimated sales only of course, so salt...
Marvel Month-Month Sales November 2015: Ticking Up the Failure Counter
Our resident Marvel analyst takes a look at the publisher's November sales, discerning which All-New All-Different titles are posed to be failures and which might become breakout successes.
