Bookstore Graphic Novel Sales Show Broadening Comics Market
October 3, 2016
The audience for comics and graphic novels has been broadening steadily in recent years, and in September the Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by Nielsen BookScan displayed that phenomenon perhaps better than ever before.
Sales Estimates for August Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
September 19, 2016
These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2016.
Sales Estimates for August Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
September 19, 2016
These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2016.
Up Over 31% vs. Last Year
September 16, 2016
Sales to comic stores by Diamond Comic Distributors in North America were up a whopping 31.62% over the same month a year ago in August.
'Suicide Squad', Politics Top Chart
September 1, 2016
Titles related to Suicide Squad and politics made up 40% of the Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart.
DC's Driving Top Ranks
August 16, 2016
DC's dominated the top sales ranks in August, with a very healthy sixteen titles selling over 100,000 copies to North American comic stores.
Sales Estimates for July Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
August 15, 2016
These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2016.
Sales Estimates for July Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
August 15, 2016
These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2016.
Behind 'Rebirth'
August 12, 2016
After a year in which DC’s comic store market share fell well below its Big Two competitor, DC scored a big win in July.
'Saga' Back at #1
August 3, 2016
A new volume of Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga topped the sales of graphic novels in bookstores in July.
In 2015
August 1, 2016
Sales of hobby games in the U.S. and Canada crossed $1 billion with authority in 2015, reaching $1.19 billion, according to a new estimate compiled by ICv2 and reported in ICv2’s Internal Correspondence #90.
From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #90
August 1, 2016
These charts of the Top 5 Collectible Games Over-all, Top 3 Mass Market Channel Collectible Games and Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games reflect sales in Spring 2016.
