ICv2.com: April ‘08 DM Estimates

The comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com offers their usual array of lists, estimates and analysis regarding the performance of comic books and graphic novels in the Direct Market of comic and hobby shops, this time for April 2008.

* Overview
* Analysis
* Top 300 Comic Books
* Top 100 Graphic Novels

The big news is probably split between a continued drop in new comics sales from a year earlier -- which should be fairly obvious if you check out the number of comics selling over 100K this year and last -- and a successful launch for Marvel's Secret Invasion crossover, including a trade of stories that inform the "event" book that Marvel put out this month. The drop continues an overall first quarter decline in sales. I'm not sure that anything else really jumps out at me except that a lot of the top-sellers up top seem like more tired or not as widely-appealing versions of the same books that were on the charts last year.

For a second take on things, John Jackson Miller of The Comics Chronicles comes away from looking at his own figures placing the emphasis on re-orders nudging the overall market ahead of last year.
 
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