Comix Experience first half of 2016
/Because I always like the mid-year check-in, there's data below the cut!
Because this is midyear (and because I am swamped), I won't be doing a lot of commentary, nor will I give you a benchmark number saving that for the year end... but here's how things look for 1/1-6/30!
Overall sales are up in the 6% range -- I ascribe a chunk of that to the GN-of-the-Month club raising the overall tide. Folks coming in every month to pick up a selection tend to buy more, go figure! I also put a lot of that on DC's Rebirth, and Ta-Nehisi Coates' BLACK PANTHER which also drove a LOT of new faces into the stores!
This is the Top 100 (and six) Comics, at the main store on Divisadero St.:
BLACK PANTHER #1 |
DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH #1 |
BLACK PANTHER #2 |
SAGA #33 |
SAGA #34 |
SAGA #35 |
PAPER GIRLS #4 |
SAGA #36 |
PAPER GIRLS #5 |
SAGA #32 |
SECRET WARS #9 (OF 9) |
BATMAN REBIRTH #1 |
PAPER GIRLS #6 |
MONSTRESS #3 |
DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #4 (OF 8) |
DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #3 (OF 8) |
CIVIL WAR II #0 RCW2 |
DOCTOR STRANGE #4 |
FLASH REBIRTH #1 |
WONDER WOMAN REBIRTH #1 |
CIVIL WAR II #1 (OF 7) |
DOCTOR STRANGE #5 |
SAGA #31 |
BATMAN #1 |
SUPERMAN REBIRTH #1 |
DOCTOR STRANGE #6 |
MONSTRESS #4 |
WALKING DEAD #150 |
DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #2 (OF 8) |
STAR WARS POE DAMERON #1 |
BITCH PLANET #6 |
SEX CRIMINALS #14 |
WALKING DEAD #151 |
MONSTRESS #5 |
BITCH PLANET #7 |
MONSTRESS #1 |
SECRET WARS #8 (OF 9) |
WALKING DEAD #152 |
WALKING DEAD #154 |
4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK #1 |
BATMAN #50 |
CIVIL WAR II #2 (OF 7) |
SEX CRIMINALS #15 |
DOCTOR STRANGE #7 |
WALKING DEAD #153 |
EAST OF WEST #24 |
FIGHT CLUB 2 #9 |
MIRROR #1 |
OLD MAN LOGAN #1 |
WONDER WOMAN #1 |
DARK KNIGHT RETURNS THE LAST CRUSADE #1 |
DOCTOR STRANGE #8 |
LOW #12 |
PAPER GIRLS #3 |
BATMAN #48 |
CRIMINAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ED |
GODDAMNED #3 |
LOW #11 SHORE OF THE DYING LIGHT PART 1 (OF 5) |
PROPHET EARTH WAR #1 (OF 6) |
BATMAN #49 |
FADE OUT #12 |
GREEN LANTERNS REBIRTH #1 |
SECRET WARS #3 (OF 9) |
DETECTIVE COMICS #934 |
FIGHT CLUB 2 #10 |
SYMMETRY #1 |
BATMAN #51 |
EAST OF WEST #25 |
FIGHT CLUB 2 #8 |
OLD MAN LOGAN #2 |
GREEN ARROW REBIRTH #1 |
PROPHET EARTH WAR #2 (OF 6) |
PROVIDENCE #7 (OF 12) |
SECRET WARS #1 (OF 9) |
STAR WARS #14 |
STAR WARS #15 |
MIGHTY THOR #3 |
MONSTRESS #6 |
WICKED & DIVINE #19 |
ARCHANGEL #1 |
DARTH VADER #15 VDWN |
LOW #13 |
MONSTRESS #2 |
WICKED & DIVINE #18 |
ACTION COMICS #957 |
MS MARVEL #4 |
PAPER GIRLS #1 |
SECRET WARS #2 (OF 8) |
WALKING DEAD #155 |
DEADLY CLASS #18 |
DOCTOR STRANGE LAST DAYS OF MAGIC #1 |
MIGHTY THOR #4 |
MS MARVEL #3 |
MS MARVEL #5 |
SPIDER-MAN #1 |
UNCANNY X-MEN #1 |
DESCENDER #9 |
EAST OF WEST #26 |
EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #5 |
HOUSE OF PENANCE #1 (OF 6) |
INJECTION #6 |
JUSTICE LEAGUE #50 |
OLD MAN LOGAN #3 |
PROVIDENCE #8 (OF 12) |
STAR WARS #16 |
STAR WARS POE DAMERON #2 |
BLACK PANTHER #1 sold approx 62% more copies than REBIRTH #1, if you want some sense of scale? Also: BOTH ARE STILL STEADILY SELLING. Also? SAGA isn't selling fewer copies than it did six months ago, so that's new readers looking at Marvel and DC super-hero comics.
(Honestly, BLACK PANTHER #1 is a MASSIVE hit)
Here's comics at the smaller store, on Ocean -- they're (as you see) MUCH more superhero oriented -- those "Rebirth" sales are up enormously from previous rack sales.
DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH #1 |
BLACK PANTHER #1 |
BATMAN REBIRTH #1 |
BLACK PANTHER #2 |
FLASH REBIRTH #1 |
BATMAN #1 |
WONDER WOMAN REBIRTH #1 |
SUPERMAN REBIRTH #1 |
CIVIL WAR II #1 (OF 7) |
DETECTIVE COMICS #934 |
SECRET WARS #9 (OF 9) |
BATMAN #50 |
MONSTRESS #3 |
TITANS REBIRTH #1 |
BATMAN #49 |
BATMAN #48 |
CIVIL WAR II #0 RCW2 |
BATMAN #51 |
SUPERMAN #1 |
GREEN LANTERNS REBIRTH #1 |
MONSTRESS #4 |
DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #3 (OF 8) |
BATMAN #52 |
SPIDER-MAN #1 |
FLASH #1 |
DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #4 (OF 8) |
4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK #1 |
MONSTRESS #5 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #6 |
CIVIL WAR II #2 (OF 7) |
GREEN ARROW REBIRTH #1 |
PAPER GIRLS #4 |
AQUAMAN REBIRTH #1 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #9 |
EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #5 |
EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #6 |
EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #8 AW |
DOCTOR STRANGE #4 |
MONSTRESS #1 3RD PTG |
MONSTRESS #6 |
PAPER GIRLS #5 |
SPIDER-MAN #2 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #12 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #7 |
DETECTIVE COMICS #935 |
DOCTOR STRANGE #5 |
OLD MAN LOGAN #1 |
STAR WARS #15 |
WONDER WOMAN #1 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #8 |
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #7 |
STAR WARS POE DAMERON #1 |
DOCTOR STRANGE #6 |
DOCTOR STRANGE #7 |
SAGA #34 |
SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #1 |
STAR WARS #14 VDWN |
STAR WARS #16 |
UNCANNY X-MEN #1 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.2 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #11 |
DARK KNIGHT RETURNS THE LAST CRUSADE #1 |
JUSTICE LEAGUE #49 |
SAGA #33 |
GREEN LANTERNS #1 |
JUSTICE LEAGUE #48 |
SAGA #35 |
SPIDER-MAN #3 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #10 |
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #5 |
JUSTICE LEAGUE #50 2ND PTG |
ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT AVENGERS #3 |
ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT AVENGERS #4 |
ALL NEW WOLVERINE #4 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #13 |
EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #7 |
GREEN ARROW #1 |
MONSTRESS #2 2ND PTG |
OLD MAN LOGAN #3 |
SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #3 |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.3 |
DARTH VADER #15 VDWN |
DARTH VADER #17 |
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #4 |
DARTH VADER #16 |
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #8 RCW2 |
ACTION COMICS #957 |
BLACK WIDOW #1 |
MIGHTY THOR #3 |
OLD MAN LOGAN #2 |
PAPER GIRLS #6 |
SPIDER-MAN #4 |
SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #2 |
ACTION COMICS #958 |
CAPTAIN AMERICA SAM WILSON #7 ASO |
DOCTOR STRANGE #8 |
ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT AVENGERS #7 ASO |
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.4 |
DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #2 (OF 8) |
EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #9 AW |
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #5 |
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #6 |
OLD MAN LOGAN #4 |
STAR WARS #17 |
UNCANNY X-MEN #2 |
Ocean sold about 10% more copies of REBIRTH #1 than the main store did. I think the telling thing here might be how many titles outsold BATMAN #50, an anniversary issue that spiked up.
Staying with the smaller store, here are their sales of BOOKS, you're only going to get a Top 50 (plus eight) over here, because I set the filter too high when I ran the report, and I don't feel like logging into the other store to go get it right right now.
BLACK SCIENCE TP VOL 01 HOW TO FALL FOREVER |
SAGA TP VOL 05 |
CIVIL WAR TP |
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 01 THE PROMISE |
NOWHERE MEN TP VOL 01 FATES WORSE THAN DEATH |
BITCH PLANET TP VOL 01 EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE |
BIRTHRIGHT TP VOL 01 HOMECOMING |
NIMONA GN |
PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 01 |
SAGA TP VOL 01 |
SAGA TP VOL 04 |
WONDER WOMAN EARTH ONE HC VOL 01 |
HARROW COUNTY TP VOL 01 COUNTLESS HAINTS |
LUMBERJANES TP VOL 01 |
MS MARVEL TP VOL 01 NO NORMAL |
SPACE DUMPLINS GN VOL 01 |
STAR WARS DARTH VADER TP VOL 01 VADER |
DEADPOOL KILLS MARVEL UNIVERSE TP |
LOW TP VOL 01 THE DELIRIUM OF HOPE |
RAGNAROK HC VOL 01 LAST GOD STANDING |
RUMBLE TP VOL 01 WHAT COLOR OF DARKNESS |
SAGA TP VOL 02 |
SAGA TP VOL 03 |
AUTUMNLANDS TP VOL 01 TOOTH & CLAW |
AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 11 SMOKE & SHADOW PART 2 |
BATMAN THE KILLING JOKE SPECIAL ED HC |
BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS HC |
COPRA ROUND ONE TP |
DARK KNIGHT A TRUE BATMAN STORY HC |
DEADPOOL TP VOL 01 DEAD PRESIDENTS NOW |
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 02 WE ARE ALL ONE |
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 03 THERE IS NO US |
INJECTION TP VOL 01 |
LOCKE & KEY TP VOL 01 WELCOME TO LOVECRAFT |
RAT QUEENS TP VOL 03 DEMONS |
SAILOR MOON TP KODANSHA ED VOL 01 |
STAR WARS DARTH VADER TP VOL 02 SHADOWS AND SECRETS |
STAR WARS TP VOL 01 SKYWALKER STRIKES |
WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 03 |
BATMAN YEAR ONE DELUXE SC |
BLACK MAGICK TP VOL 01 AWAKENING PART ONE |
CHRONONAUTS TP VOL 01 |
DAN CLOWES PATIENCE HC |
DEADPOOL TP VOL 01 SECRET INVASION |
KILLING & DYING HC |
MILES MORALES ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN ULTIMATE COLL TP BOO |
MISCELLANEOUS BOOK |
MS MARVEL TP VOL 02 GENERATION WHY |
PREACHER TP BOOK 01 |
SAGA DLX ED HC VOL 01 |
SCOOBY DOO TEAM UP TP VOL 02 |
SEX CRIMINALS TP VOL 01 |
SEX CRIMINALS TP VOL 02 TWO WORLDS ONE COP |
SOUTHERN BASTARDS TP VOL 01 HERE WAS A MAN |
THE INCAL HC NEW PTG |
THOR TP VOL 01 GODDESS OF THUNDER |
WOLF TP VOL 01 |
Finally, the book prize, BOOKS on Divisadero -- this does NOT include books sold via GN-of-the-month club, because that would crazily skew the chart... and not really show anything about consumers native habits. This is Top 100 (and fourteen), and #114 sold more copies than #19 on the Ocean list.
DAN CLOWES PATIENCE HC |
SAGA TP VOL 05 |
PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 01 |
SAGA TP VOL 01 |
BITCH PLANET TP VOL 01 EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE |
WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 03 |
SAGA TP VOL 04 |
WONDER WOMAN EARTH ONE HC VOL 01 |
APOCALYPTIGIRL AN ARIA FOR THE END TIMES TP |
SAGA TP VOL 02 |
SPACE DUMPLINS GN VOL 01 |
LOVE AND ROCKETS NEW STORIES TP VOL 08 |
SAGA TP VOL 03 |
DESCENDER TP VOL 01 TIN STARS |
RICK & MORTY TP VOL 01 |
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 05 ALL THESE SECRETS |
DEADLY CLASS TP VOL 01 REAGAN YOUTH |
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 01 THE PROMISE |
SANDMAN OVERTURE DELUXE ED HC |
WATCHMEN TP |
DAYTRIPPER TP |
MEANWHILE IN SAN FRANCISCO THE CITY IN ITS OWN WORDS |
NIMONA GN |
SANDMAN TP VOL 01 PRELUDES & NOCTURNES NEW ED |
THE INCAL HC NEW PTG |
WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 01 THE FAUST ACT |
AWKWARD GN |
WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 02 FANDEMONIUM |
KAIJUMAX TP VOL 01 |
MS MARVEL TP VOL 01 NO NORMAL |
TREES TP VOL 01 |
CIVIL WAR TP |
INJECTION TP VOL 01 |
PREACHER TP BOOK 01 |
PRETTY DEADLY TP VOL 01 |
SEX CRIMINALS TP VOL 01 |
TOKYO GHOST TP VOL 01 ATOMIC GARDEN |
WALKING DEAD TP VOL 25 NO TURNING BACK |
BONE COLOR ED SC VOL 01 OUT BONEVILLE NEW PTG |
RAT QUEENS TP VOL 03 DEMONS |
Y THE LAST MAN TP BOOK 01 |
DARK NIGHT A TRUE BATMAN STORY HC |
DESCENDER TP VOL 02 |
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 04 WHO WANTS WAR |
LOW TP VOL 01 THE DELIRIUM OF HOPE |
LUMBERJANES TP VOL 01 |
SEX CRIMINALS TP VOL 02 TWO WORLDS ONE COP |
SOMETHING NEW TALES FROM MAKESHIFT BRIDE GN |
STAR WARS TP VOL 01 SKYWALKER STRIKES |
THIS ONE SUMMER GN |
AMULET SC VOL 07 FIRELIGHT |
BATMAN THE KILLING JOKE SPECIAL ED HC |
GIANT DAYS TP VOL 01 |
LUMBERJANES TP VOL 03 |
NOD AWAY GN |
SEX CRIMINALS TP VOL 03 THREE THE HARD WAY |
THROUGH THE WOODS GN |
Y THE LAST MAN TP BOOK 02 |
AMULET SC VOL 01 STONEKEEPER NEW PTG |
ARCHIE TP VOL 01 |
BLACK SCIENCE TP VOL 01 HOW TO FALL FOREVER |
CAT PERSON |
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 03 THERE IS NO US |
SECRET HERO SOCIETY HC VOL 01 STUDY HALL OF JUSTICE |
ZAP COMIX #16 |
BEE AND PUPPYCAT TP VOL 01 |
BLACK MAGICK TP VOL 01 AWAKENING PART ONE |
DARTH VADER & FRIENDS HC |
HARK A VAGRANT HC |
HARROW COUNTY TP VOL 02 TWICE TOLD |
HELLBOY IN MEXICO TP |
IN REAL LIFE GN |
LUMBERJANES TP VOL 02 |
MEGG & MOGG IN AMSTERDAM AND OTHER STORIES HC |
MS MARVEL TP VOL 04 LAST DAYS |
SAGA DLX ED HC VOL 01 |
SAGA TP VOL 06 |
STAR WARS DARTH VADER TP VOL 02 SHADOWS AND SECRETS |
5000 KM PER SECOND HC |
AKIRA KODANSHA ED GN VOL 01 |
AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 12 SMOKE & SHADOW PART 3 |
DEADLY CLASS TP VOL 02 KIDS OF THE BLACK HOLE |
DELILAH DIRK & KINGS SHILLING GN |
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 02 WE ARE ALL ONE |
MS MARVEL TP VOL 02 GENERATION WHY |
POP GUN WAR GN VOL 01 GIFT |
RAT QUEENS TP VOL 01 SASS & SORCERY |
RAT QUEENS TP VOL 02 FAR REACHING TENTACLES OF NRYGOTH |
RELISH MY LIFE IN KITCHEN GN |
SANDMAN TP VOL 02 THE DOLLS HOUSE NEW ED |
SANDMAN TP VOL 04 SEASON OF MISTS NEW ED |
STAR WARS TP VOL 02 SHOWDOWN ON THE SMUGGLERS MOON |
STEP ASIDE POPS HARK A VAGRANT COLLECTION HC |
SUPERMUTANT MAGIC ACADEMY GN |
SYLLABUS NOTES FROM ACCIDENTAL PROFESSOR SC |
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL TP VOL 01 SQUIRREL POWER |
WE CAN NEVER GO HOME TP |
WRENCHIES GN |
AKA JESSICA JONES TP VOL 01 ALIAS |
ATTACK ON TITAN GN VOL 18 |
BABY SITTERS CLUB COLOR ED GN VOL 01 KRISTYS GREAT IDEA |
DEADLY CLASS TP VOL 03 THE SNAKE PIT |
FADE OUT TP VOL 03 |
INVADER ZIM TP VOL 01 |
NAMELESS CITY GN VOL 01 (OF 3) |
NEIL GAIMAN AMERICAN GODS MMPB |
PHONOGRAM TP VOL 03 IMMATERIAL GIRL |
SMILE GN NEW PTG |
STAR WARS DARTH VADER TP VOL 01 VADER |
STAR WARS ORIGINAL TRILOGY GN HC |
SUPERMAN RED SON TP NEW EDITION |
TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP VOL 01 BACK ON THE STREET |
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL TP VOL 02 SQUIRRELYOU KNOW IT |
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME IF I WET THE BED GN |
WORST BEHAVIOR NEW MEGG AND MOGG |
Always love to hear your thoughts!
-B