Comic Book sales are on fire, and the word over at Business Insider is, it’s not just the movies. Citing data from Comichron, graphic novel sales alone hit $870 million last year, up from $270 million in 2000. Print and digital copies are also showing much improved numbers. From the article:
Last year’s 85 million print unit sales for the top 300 comic books was the highest number since 2007, and that does not count increasingly significant graphic novel and digital sales nor a growing number of sales beyond the top 300. Even though total unit sales remain lower than during peaks in the 1950s or early 1990s, according to Miller, the comic book business is booming.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-comic-book-industry-is-on-fire-2014-8#ixzz3CyzsM95T
Comichron is one of my recommended websites, and owner John Jackson Miller keeps tabs on yearly comic book sales.
