As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top Publishers, Top 500 Comics, and Top 500 TPBs & GNs for the Entire Year of 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for independently published titles in 2009.
There is some debate over what comics count as indy. Some people claim that it’s an [...]

As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for December 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for small press titles, published in December 2009.

To see the charts for independently published comics for December 2009, please click here.

What do I [...]

Battlefields is a war comics series, created and written by Garth Ennis. Last year, Dynamite published the first ’season’ of the series, which was divided into three self-contained mini-series of three issues, all of which are set during WWII. The first mini-series, with artist Russell Braun, was titled ‘The Night Witches‘, was set on the [...]

A guide on how to handle fat, jolly, Christmas invaders. From the mad minds of Garth Ennis, Steve McCrea, and Steve Pugh:

As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for November 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for small press titles in November 2009.

Diamond provided their own small press charts, but I chose to ignore them, for a couple of [...]

As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for November 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for independently published titles in November 2009.

Diamond provided their own indy charts, but I chose to ignore them, for a couple of reasons. [...]

Diamond Distribution have just supplied Hypergeek with a full run down of their November 2009 Direct Market sales figures.

If you are not familiar with how Diamond’s sales figures, here’s how they are calculated:
Data for Diamond’s sales charts—which include the monthly market shares and all top product charts—are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from a universe [...]

Diamond Distribution just supplied Hypergeek with data for the top publishers and products for November 2009.

If you are not familiar with how Diamond’s sales figures, here’s how they are calculated:
Data for Diamond’s sales charts—which include the monthly market shares and all top product charts—are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from a universe of over 4,000+ [...]

The Small Press Spotlight is a semi-regular feature on Hypergeek where I dedicate an article to all the excellent small press and indie publishers out there, as well as self-publishing artists. This is accomplished in the form of company/creator profiles, highlights of key works, reviews of the company/individual’s latest releases, and general articles about the [...]

Occasionally, Tharg permits some of his script & art droids to leave 2000 AD headquarters. In the Weekly Droid Watch, I’m going to be keeping an eye on what present and former droids have been up to each week. 2000 AD droids tend to go on to produce some of the most phenomenal U.S. comics, [...]