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Diamond Distribution have just supplied Hypergeek with a full run down of their January 2010 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 [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Filed under Featured, Sales Figures · Tagged Abstract Studio, Amazing Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man #617, Avatar Press, Batman and Robin #7, Blackest Night: The Flash #2, Blade of the Immortal Volume 22: Footsteps, Brian Michael Bendis, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #31, Captain America Reborn #6, Captain America: Road to Reborn, Chill, Dark Avengers #13, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Diamond Distribution, Direct Market sales figures, Fantagraphics, Gilbert Hernandez, Green Lantern #50, Green Lantern Corps #44, Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Neverland #0, Haunt #4, House of Mystery Volume 3: The Space Between, Indy Comics, January 2010, Marvel Comics, New Avengers #61, No Hero, Olivier Coipel, Siege #1, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Volume 9: Destroyer, Terry Moore's Echo #18, The Unwritten Volume 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity, The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear the Hunters, Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, Top 300 graphic novels & trades, Troublemakers, Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 22: Ultimatum, Ultimatum, Uncanny X-Men #520, Vertigo Crime, Warren Ellis, Zenoscope Entertainment
Fantagraphics Books has given fans an inside look at the next volume of their Love and Rockets library: Gilbert Hernandez’s High Soft Lisp.
The images are posted over at their Flickr page, but I have cross posted a couple below, for those readers to lazy to click, along with the book’s solicitation blurb, and a video [...]
If you are in Seattle this weekend, I would highly recommend you pop by Fantagraphics Bookstore in Georgetown, and check out their 2010 Preview Exhibition, which opens this Saturday. They will be displaying work from several of their top releases from the coming year, including Gilbert Hernandez artwork from Love & Rockets New Stories #3, [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Filed under News · Tagged Billy Hazlenuts and the Crazy Bird, Carol Tyler, Fantagraphics Books, Fantagraphics Bookstore, Gilbert Hernandez, Hate Annual #8, Jacques Tardi, Jason, Jim Woodring, Joe Daly, Love & Rockets New Stories 3, Michael Kupperman, Nate Neal, Peter Bagge, Richard Sala, Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6, The Hidden, Tony Millionair, Werewolves of Montpellier
Over the last few days I have been listing my favourite comics (see here) and graphic novels (see here) of 2009. Well, it’s now the new year, and it’s time to start looking forward rather than back. To that end I have created a list of the essential graphic novels and comics (announced so far [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 2:13 am
Filed under Articles, Featured, Indy Comics, Small Press · Tagged 45, Accent UK, Accent UK’s 2010 anthology, Alan Moore, Alex Robertson, Almost Silent, American Vampire, Andi Ewington, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne, Batwoman, Ben McCool, Ben Templesmith, Bob Byrne, Brian Azzerello, Brian K. Vaghan, Brian Wood Becky Cloonan, Choker, Chris Sprouse, Clamnut Comics, com.x, Darren White, Dave West, DC Comics, Demo Volume II, Dustin Weaver, Eddie Campbell, Essential Comics of 2010, Essential Graphic Novels of 2010, Essential Reading, EX Machina #50, Fantagraphics, First Wave, Forty-Five, Gilbert Hernandez, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, High Soft Lisp, Image Comics, Jamie Hernandez, Jason, JH Williams III, Joe the Barbarian, Kevin O'Neill, Los Bros Hernandez, Love & Rockets New Stories 3, Marleen Lowe, Marshal Law Omnibus, Mr Amperduke, Other Lives, Pat Mills, PENNY CENTURY, Peter Bagge, Predators, Rafael Alburquerque Vertigo, Rags Morales, S.H.I.E.L.D. Jonathan Hickman, Scott Snyder, Sean Murphy, SHIELD, Stephen King, Stephen Parkhouse, The Bojeffries Saga, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III): Century #2: 1968, The Playwright, The Troublemakers, Tony Harris, Top Shelf, Tricked, Whatever Happened to the World’s Fastest Man?, Wildstorm, X-Men: Second Coming
As a follow-up to my list of the best graphic novels of 2009, I have compiled a list of my favourite comics of 2009 – by which I mean monthly and weekly titles, rather than collections and graphic novels.
I found this list incredibly hard to put together, as I originally intended to write a list [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 1:42 am
Filed under Best of, Creator Owned, Featured, Indy Comics · Tagged 100 Bullets, 2000 AD, Air, Andy Lanning, Batman & Robin, Batman/Doc Savage, Battlefields: The Tankies, Beasts of Burden, Best Comics of 2009, Blackest Night, BPRD 1947, Brian Azzerello, Cable, Captain America, Captain America: Reborn, Chew, Chronicles of Wormwood: The Last Battle, Citizen Rex, Criminal: The Sinners, Crossed, Dan Abnett, Daredevil, Days Missing, Dead Space: Extraction, DMZ, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Doctor Who: Whispering Gallery, Elephantmen, Ex Machina, Fables, Fantastic Four, Fear Agent, FTL (Orang Utan Studios), Ghost Rider: Heaven’s on Fire, Gilbert Hernandez, Godland, Gravel, Greek Street, Groo: The Hogs of Horder, Groom Lake, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hellblazer, Hellboy: The Wild hunt, Hercules: Knives of Kush, Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead, House of Mystery, Ignition City, Immortal Iron Fist, Incognito, Incorruptible, Invincible, Invincible Iron Man, Irredeemable, Jack of Fables, Jeff Smith, JSA All-Stars, JSA vs. Kobra: Engines of Faith, Judge Dredd Megazine, Justice Society of America, Kick-Ass, Locke & Key: Head Games, Mario Hernandez, Mike Carey, North 40, Nova, Peter Gross, Phil Noto, Phonogram 2: Singles Club, Rasl, Secret Warriors, Strange Tales, Stuff of Legend, Stumptown, Sweet Tooth, Tank Girl: Dark Nuggets, Terry Moore’s Echo, The Anchor, The Boys, The Boys: Herogasm, The Dead: Kingdom of Flies (Beserker), The Devil's Handshake (Archaia), The Eternal Conflicts of the Cosmic warrior, The Goon, The Literals, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, The Unwritten, Umbrella Academy: Dallas, Uncanny, Unknown Soldier, Usagi Yojimbo, Viking, Walking Dead, War of Kings, Wasteland, Wednesday Comics, Western (Accent UK), Whatever Happened to the World’s Fastest Man?, Wolverine: Weapon X, X-Factor, X-Force, X-Men, X-Men: Legacy
Earlier this week I linked over to an article written by Douglas Wolk for the New York Times Magazine, which I thought was a list of his favourite GNs of 2009. However, Douglas just contacted me to inform me that the list was not his list of top picks from 2009, but actually a list [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Filed under General · Tagged Asterios Polyp, Best of 2009, BN REview, Book 1: A Good and Decent Man, C. Tyler, David Ma, David Mazzucchelli, Didier Lefèvre and Frédéric Lemercier, Douglas Wolk, Emmanuel Guibert, Final Crisis, Gilbert Hernandez, Grant Morrison, Luba, The Photographer, You'll Never Know
Fantagraphics Books recently released their solicitations for comics shipping in February 2010. These solicitations will appear in the December 2009 issue of Previews Magazine.
TEMPERANCE
by Cathy Malkasian
240 pgs, 2 Color, 8 x 10, Hardcover, $22.99
ISBN 978-1-60699-323-1
Do ideas of war and enemies hold people together? Is a culture of conflict too seductive not to be irresistible? These [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Filed under Solicitations · Tagged Archie Goodwin, Ben Schwartz, BLAZING COMBAT, CAPTAIN EASY, Cathy Malkasian, Fantagraphics Books, Gilbert Hernandez, Ho Che Anderson, Jaime Hernandez, Kim Deitch, PENNY CENTURY, Roy Crane, SCREAM QUEEN SAND & FURY, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, Solicitations, TEMPERANCE, THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS CRITICISM OF THE 21ST CENTURY, THE HIGH SOFT LISP, THE SEARCH FOR SMILIN' ED THE SEARCH FOR SMILIN' ED
The following comic previews are for Dark Horse Comics titles on sale Wednesday September 16th 2009.
Please click the the title below that you wish to preview. Once there, please click on the thumbnail images to launch the image viewer. Pictoview is recommended for easier image navigation.
Comics
Beasts of Burden #1 – 3 Pages
Citizen Rex #3 [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Filed under Previews · Tagged 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man HC, Alfredo Alcala, Andy Owens, Beasts of Burden #1, Benjamin Carré, Bride of the Water God Volume 4, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 5: Predators and Prey TPB, Citizen Rex #3, Cliff Richards, Dark Horse Comics, Dave Gibbons, Dave Stewart, Doug Petrie, Drew Z. Greenbert, Eric Powell. Bruce Jones, Ernie Chan, Ethan Beavers, Evan Dorkin, Frank Miller, Gabriel Ba, Georges Jeanty, Gerard Way, Gilbert Hernandez, Gunsmith Cats: Burst Volume 4, Indiana Jones Adventures Volume 2 TPB, Jane Espenson, Jill Thompson, Jim Krueger, Jo Chen, John Buscema, Kenichi Sonoda, Mario Hernandez, Mark Evanier, Mark Silvestr, Matt Kidt, Mi-Kyung Yun, Michelle Madsen, Previews, Stan Sakai, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #45, Star Wars: The Clone Wars #9, Steven Grant, Steven S. DeKnight, The Chronicles of Conan Volume 18 TPB, The Goon Volume 9: Calamity of Conscience TPB, The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century (Limited Edition), The Umbrella Academy Volume 2: Dallas (limited-edition hardcover), Usagi Yojimbo Volume 9: Daisho 2nd Edition TPB, Val Mayerik
Hypergeek’s Hot Picks is a weekly column on the site, where I take a look through the list of comics being released that week, and decide which ones I think are worth picking up. I then pick out the comics which I am most looking forward to, and tell readers why I think they will [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Filed under Columns, Hypergeek's Hot Picks · Tagged Bill Willingham, Brian Michael Bendis, Citizen Rex, Cully Hamner, Fear Agent, Gilbert Hernandez, Greg Rucka, JH Williams III, John Reppion, Jonathan Hickman, Justice Society of America, Leah Moore, Mario Hernandez, Matthew Sturges, Rick Remender, Secret Warriors, The Complete Dracula, Tony Moore
