Sales Charts

So what's news?  Besides the large number of titles ranking within the Top 1000? The season three premiere of The Walking Dead doubled the ratings...

Walking Dead continues its reign at the top of the indie chart, if not quite at the figures it sold last month, with Saga, Buffy and surprise-hit Doctor Who/ Star Trek following up. Valiant’s latest hit, Archer and Armstrong is well up there as well. Buffy spin-off Spike, a new Star Wars title, an RPG adaptation and are the only other high charting debuts. Elsewhere, all-ages books continue to show stronger than average sales, headed-up by the bonkers Adventure Time.

I imagine that most people read articles about comic book sales in a darkened room, in a enclosed and private space - perhaps curtained...

by Marc-Oliver Frisch August was another strong month for DC -- that's always worth pointing out, given the rather dire numbers of the publisher's comic-book...

The September sales estimates are out.  DC had jumps across the board for their Zero Month promotion, so the retailers certainly responded to that....

Here's my piece for PW on The ICV2 conference with coverage of the white paper, kids panel, digital panel and worldwide publishing panel. Analyzing...

I hate to differ with Torsten but I think Wednesday still counts as a Day Zero becuase of the ICv2 conference—a lot of people...

The AVENGERS VS X-MEN crossover continues to dominate most of Marvel's major titles in August, but this month also has the launch of two new titles - GAMBIT and HAWKEYE - plus the official 50th anniversary issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, and the start of Neal Adams' FIRST X-MEN mini. DC had a slightly greater share of the North American direct market this month. But it was close, leading Marvel by 36% to 35% in terms of units, and 33% to 32% in dollars.

DC was the top publisher in September by a solid margin, with it's month of Zero issues convincingly beating Marvall, which had the #1 book in AvX #11. The comparative statistics are an interesting case -- sales are down significantly against August, but that was a five week month. Year-to-year this is the first time we're comparing New 52 to New 52, and comcis sales are down while GN sales are up in double digits. Year to date is up for 2012 however. In general, a strong year continues, and Marvel better print up some more variant covers.

It’s the beginning of the month and given the recent talk about Chris Ware's bestseller, I thought I'd check to see how it was...

While we all know that Amazon rankings are easily gamed and represent dozens not hundreds of copies sold, it's worth noting that Chris Ware's...

______________________________________________________________ The New York Times has been running weekly bestseller lists for graphic novel hardcovers, paperbacks, and manga (the latter segregated out to keep them...