DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: January 2009
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
The big news on the January sales chart is a catastrophic crash of WildStorm's average periodical sales. The monthly direct-market numbers of...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: January 2009
By Paul O'Brien
The new year begins with a relatively quiet month on the charts. The big news, of course, is Barack Obama's unexpectedly...
NY Times adds online Graphic Novel Bestseller list
For over a year, there's been some consternation among comics publishing types that the prestigious New York Times bestseller list did not include graphic...
BookScan redux
Okay, just a few after dinner cordials as we close the books on the annual Imbolc rituals:
§ Peerless Peggy Burns of D&Q...
BookScan Debate Goes to Hell: The Final Monday
As the swallows return to Capistrano, as the bats return to Colossal Caves, as the wildebeest migrate across the Serengeti, and the alewives return...
Hibbs on BookScan 2008
It's the mother of all sales charts! Today's must reading -- and I do mean MUST -- is retailer Brian Hibbs's annual analysis...
January sales: down
ICv2's January number have been posted, and although they aren't horrific, they ain't great. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583 set a sales record, but overall...
Top GNs in bookstores
And in our final chart based item for the morning, ICv2 has released an adjusted list of the top-selling graphic novels of 2008, according...
Meanwhile, in Occidental comics news
The January numbers are out, and while the sales estimates have yet to be tallied. John Jackson Miller suspects that January comics sales will...
Looking at Diamond’s backlist charts
Oh no, not more charts? Yes! This time it's something we haven't seen much talked about before: Diamond's BACKlist charts. As all publishing watchers...
DC Month to Month Sales: December 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
The question whether the economy has any effect on DC Comics' periodical output is increasingly difficult to answer. On the one hand,...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales – December ’08
by Paul O'Brien
After nine long months - the final issue was slightly late - SECRET INVASION finally wrapped up in December, and "Dark Reign"...
