Over at Comic Book Resources,
Brian Hibbs has done his annual analysis on BookScan’s sales figures for graphic novels.
First thing you have to say about BookScan is the standard disclaimer that we don’t really know what percentage of retail sales it represents. Barnes & Nobel, Borders and Amazon: Yes. Wal-Mart, book clubs, many independent bookstores and [...]

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One of the more interesting pieces of news to pop out of the New York Comic Con is Marvel Comic’s dual launch of Spider-Woman as both a monthly comic and as a “motion comic,” the buzz word du jour for limited animation cartoons.  This has some interesting implications for the direct market, but since this [...]

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Final Crisis, while not without enjoyable bits, is a victim of poor scheduling and worse formatting in its lifecycle as a “monthly” mini-series or series of mini-series or series of mini-series with a couple issues of a regular title thrown in.  Yes, figuring out how to read the silly thing is that convoluted and the [...]

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