British Comics Sales Interesting circulation info on the many British weeklies. ComicBase The longest-running and most successful inventory program for comics, Pete Bickford has incorporated circulation data into recent releases. ComicBookPage John Mayo has a number of tools on this site aggregating and sorting monthly sales reports. There's a lot of material here! Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon's blog has many links to articles about the business side of comics publishing.
ComicsResearch Good starting point for research with lots of links and bibliographies! Grand Comics Database An online project similar to the CBG/ComicBase database, this mammoth community undertaking includes justa bot every comic book you can think of — and many you never thought of! ICv2 Milton Griepp does monthly tracking of Diamond data parallel to what's above — and publishes a lot of great info on the manga and bookstore markets. Maggie Thompson Maggie's beginning to post on her site many of the fanzines she was involved with; these include lots of comics history from the 1960s and earlier. Newsarama Matt Brady and Michael Doran's long-running news website gets into detail on a lot of behind-the-scenes information from the world of publishing. Now with a Comichron column!
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[Originally posted 4/5/2007]
FYI, for anybody interested, Chris Marshall of the Collected Comics Library podcast and I discussed the sales estimates for the trades released in 2007-02 on a recent episode of my Comic Book Page podcast. The show notes for the episode can be found at: http://www.comicbookpage.com/Podcast/?p=16 I'm constantly reworking my number crunching and analysis and would welcome and constructive feedback on how I can improve it...
[originally posted 4/5/2007]
I'll try to give it a listen soon!
[originally posted 4/9/2007]
John, Thanks for the terrific forum. And thank for listening to the Podcast. John Mayo and I put a lot of time into it (well it's really all John). Cheers! Chris Marshall Collected Comics Library Podcast http://collectedcomicslibrary.blogspot.com/