Sales trends May 97
After all the recent chatter about sales charts, and trends and whether the "wait for the trade" mentality is to blame for the attrition in sales, I noted Brian Hibbs' comment:
I’d suggest that this...
Can anyone here sell comics?
Last week's Tilting at Windmills by Brian Hibbs was a particularly meaty one as he delved once more into the periodical vs trade debate currently going on, and even questioned if TOO MUCH product...
DC Month-to-Month Sales September 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
As Paul O'Brien points out in the Marvel column, the margin between Marvel and DC Comics' market shares in September is smaller than it's been in months. The reason for that...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales – September 2007
by Paul O'Brien
For the second month running, things are fairly quiet at Marvel. The biggest item on their schedule is the continuing WORLD WAR HULK event, and the X-books are also seeing gains...
Online Manga charts explained
Matt Blind over at ComicSnob has been compiling lists of manga bestsellers from online sources, now he explains how he does it:
While I enjoy compiling the rankings, and am a little proud of the...
More sales chat
John Mayo has his August, 2007 Sales Analysis up at CBR, with all kinds of charts and graphs and some changes based on the ngoing online conversation about the veracity (or lack of same)...
More on comics sales charts
While we know readers love our comparative sales charts compiled monthly by Paul O'Brien and Marc-Oliver Frisch, we also know not everyone is a fan.
Several professionals have suggested in the comments section and...
DC Month to Month Sales: August 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
DC Comics' average numbers slightly recovered in August, thanks to continued strong sales of the "Sinestro Corps War" crossover storyline, solid first-issue numbers of various 52 spin-off titles including the ongoing Booster...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales August 2007
by Paul O' Brien
I usually like to start this column by running through the big events of the month. But this month, frankly, there's not much to point out. WORLD WAR HULK...
Sales Charts: 2006 Diamond figures
After a day of rest, we're back to everyone's favorite topic. Sales Charts! Crazy ass mofo that we are, we prefer to get nuts with actual data as opposed to making snide remarks to...
Sales Charts: Diamond year to date 2007 — with caveat
After some correspondence yesterday, John Mayo at CBR has taken the info for the year and made that years to date graphic novel sales chart :
Marvel dominates the rankings in 2007 thus far,...
Graphic novel sales figures in focus — UPDATED
For those of you who haven't been glued to the computer, there has been a bit of a comment war raging here on the Beat in the wake of Eric Reynolds' report of a...
