This morning, The New York Times released its list of best-selling books, as they will appear in the the May 22nd, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 7th, 2011. The top-selling title in the Hardcover Graphic Books category for the week, coming straight in at number one [...]

In celebration of gaining my Canadian Permanent Residency, I am running down an A-Z of Canadian comic book creators. For the index list of creators featured, please click here. We kick off with: ‘A’ is for Adrian Alphona [Updated on January 30th, 2010] Adrian Alphona’s first published comic work appeared in March 2003, in X-Men [...]

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 [...]

Diamond Distribution have just supplied Hypergeek with a full run down of their December 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 [...]

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 [...]

The following comic previews are for DC, Vertigo & Wildstorm 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. DC Universe Action Comics #881 - 10 [...]