Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: April 2009
By Paul O'Brien
It's Wolverine month at Marvel! To tie in with the film, we have a new ongoing Wolverine title, and a whole...
April comics are the comeback kid!
The pamphlet is back! Whoo hoo! Buckle down, Winsocki! ICv2 reports that comics sales were up in April , for the first time this...
DC Month-to-Month Sales: March 2009
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
Average DC Comics periodical sales in the direct market dropped to their lowest point yet in March 2009, in the context of...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: March 2009
by Paul O'Brien
Dark Reign continued in March, with more tie-in issues and miniseries. As with the Initiative books a couple of years ago,...
More Diamond cuts: WARLORD OF IO, Classics Illustrated
Two more stories on the continuing effects of Diamond's tougher benchmarks:
§ Robot 6 quotes a letter from SLG :
SLG Publishing was planning on following...
Miller on the changing shape of the Top 300
John Jackson Miller has a pretty fascinating analysis of the Top 300's long tail -- complete with charts! (How does he DO it?) With...
This week’s NYT Graphic Books chart
As always, WATCHMEN and NARUTO top this week's Graphic Books Best Seller List. Tatsumi's epic A DRIFTING LIFE debuts at #3 on the paperback...
HUNTRESS mystery solved — for real, this time — FINALE
Okay so arriving at my Publishers Weekly desk today, I found the following:And what do you think was in these two boxes?Several other people...
This week’s NY Times bestseller list
This week's list contains few of the oddities that have filled previous lists...it's kind of what you'd expect -- lots of Alan Moore,...
That darned New York Times bestseller list!
Now that the New York Times' online-only Graphic Books Chart has been around for a month or so, people are beginning to wonder just...
March comics sales down but not out
ICv2's monthly sales analysis for March went up yesterday, and it was something of a grim milestone:
For the first time since March of 2001,...
DC Month-to-Month Sales: February 2009
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
DC Comics' average periodical sales in the direct market declined further in February 2009. They dropped to just above 23,000 units, yet...
