https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/q5l7qx/why_comic_book_sales_are_at_an_alltime_low/
Comic book sales aren't at an all time low though but clickbait titles are a hallmark of shitty journalism. I still can't fucking believe snowflake and safespace were a real thing. Seriously mind blowing. You may call me a pussy, but I will not hear you in my safe space (my saffeee spaacce).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqOSUUkQlJ4
Professional comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver (@ComicArtistProSecrets) gives a behind-the-scenes look at Comicsgate and how DC and Marvel are destroying be

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/s0khff/are_comic_book_sales_still_lowbad_just_a_thought/
Comic books sales are low because there is hardly any marketing for them. Marvel imo is the worst at this. They focus on bringing people back rather than bringing people in. Also there is no good way to read comics legally and efficiently. Marvel Unlimited is the right direction but it is still lacking.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/q6cj6v/why_comic_book_sales_are_at_an_alltime_low/
look at the graph again..digital comic sales are going up and graphic novel sales swelled as online retailers and mass market outlets never closed. diamond's shutdown and publisher cutbacks meant 30% fewer new comic books were released — yet new comics sales were off by much less, so comic shops made the most of the new issues they did get.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2019/10/08/surprising-new-data-shows-comic-readers-are-leaving-superheroes-behind/
ICv2 has estimated the total value of this market at $1.095 billion in the US and Canada in 2018, up modestly from 2017's $1.015 billion. North American Comic Sales through 2018, as calculated

https://www.comicsbeat.com/report-comics-and-graphic-novel-sales-grew-over-60-in-2021/
Comics shop sales were up 60% vs. last year and 34% vs. 2019; Book channel sales, including book fairs were up 81%. Digital growth slowed from 2020. Newsstand, which is counted in the "Other" channel continues to decline, but crowdfunding growth offset that. The comics periodical format was at $

https://wordsrated.com/comic-book-sales/
Comic book sales by year. Over 94 million copies of comic books and graphic novels were sold in 2021 in the United States. 2021 was a record year for comic book sales, as well as fiction book sales overall, over the last 5 years and very close to 2016 levels when 99 million copies were sold to comic book stores. Comic book sales increased by 48.73% compared to 2020, which was heavily affected

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/comic-books-years-industry-dying-230149276.html
Quantifying Comic Book Sales Has Always Been an Inexact Science. ... According to Publisher's Weekly, sales of comic books and graphic novels topped $1.28 billion in 2020, an all-time high. It

https://blog.pricecharting.com/2022/07/how-comic-books-can-recover-from.html
Many adults would read collect, and invest in comic books, and the medium would peak in sales during the 1990s with individual books like Spawn and X-Men reaching print runs in the millions (a feat that has never since been accomplished). Comic books would experience a crash in the late-90s but would come back with the support of Hollywood.

https://www.cbr.com/comic-books-not-dead-thriving/
As pointed out in a KRTV article, the comic book industry has experienced a substantial increase in sales over the course of the past few years, with 2021 in particular seeing an unexpected jump in monetary success.Leading the charge in this trend has been Japanese "manga" comics that have largely been adapted into anime cartoons.Other titles mentioned in the article as being highly

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/07/05/2021-comic-sales-were-up-up-and-away-at-a-record-2-billion/
That trend continued, with over $1.1 billion worth of comics sold through the trade book channel in 2021, nearly equaling the total of all comics sold through all channels in 2019. Sales of

https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/02/npd-books-comics-and-graphic-novels-slowing-in-the-states/
In News by Porter Anderson February 22, 2023. In 2023's first six weeks, the total US comics and graphic novels market is down 13 percent against 2022's figures, per NPD's Kristen McLean. A table of manga for sale in a bookstore. At NPD Books, Kristen McLean says that 60 percent of the year-to-date slowdown in comics and manga sales was

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/94839-sales-dropped-at-comics-shops-in-2023-comicspro-survey-finds.html
When comparing 2023 sales to 2019, fewer stores experienced a sales decline. 54% of comic book stores reported lower gross sales in 2023 than in 2019. Sales of new comics were down in 73% of comic

https://www.comicsbeat.com/what-ever-happened-to-the-sales-charts/
10. Sales charts. Once we loved them, pored over them, and argued about them. But since the distribution changes of the last three years, the comic book sales chart has been one of the most notable victims. Diamond stopped doing them when DC left, started again briefly, and stopped again, with their last sales chart being released in April, 2022.

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/q77wiw/what_are_the_real_reasons_comic_sales_are/
Manga is generally a lot cheaper. Mostly printed in black and white at a smaller size. They keep the cost down and get more bang for the buck. There's many other reasons, but that's a big reason manga is able to sell huge numbers. 9.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32708860/
Why Comic Book Sales Are at an All-Time Low: With Kelly Sue DeConnick, Ethan Van Sciver.

https://screenrant.com/2021-was-officially-the-comic-industrys-biggest-sales-year-of-all-time/
The 2021 report on comics sales by Comichron and ICv2 is out, and it paints an overwhelmingly positive picture for the industry. 2021 was the best year ever for North American comics sales, which peaked at an impressive 2.075 billion, up by 62% from 2020. Best-selling manga such as My Hero Academia alongside graphic novels lead the charge, but

https://www.businessinsider.com/whats-behind-surge-in-comic-sales-movies-kids-comics-manga-2022-7?op=1
It's never been a better time to be in the comics business. Comic-book sales — including graphic novels, single issues, and digital comics — hit $2.075 billion in 2021, a 62% increase from the

https://www.comicbookrevolution.com/september-2023-single-issue-comic-book-sales-rankings/
The resolicitation of Conan the Barbarian #2 that shipped in August managed to break into the Top 100 and take the number 91 spot. Conan the Barbarian #3 shipped in the last week of September 2023 and took the number 125 spot. These are pretty good sales rankings for a small publisher like Titan Comics.

https://caroltilley.net/2019/06/a-snapshot-of-mid-1970s-comic-book-sales/
The CMAA estimated that total sales for the year totaled about 200 million comics, generating about $60 million in revenue. In today's dollars, that comes to about $259 million, or about $100 million less than print floppy comics sold in the US last year. They reported a pass-on readership rate—that is, the number of readers who touched a

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/51531/comics-graphic-novel-sales-grew-over-60-2021
Also impressive was the growth across channels. "Sales were up across all types of retailers," Griepp said of the numbers in the analysis. "Sales through comic stores were up 60% vs. last year and 34% vs. 2019; sales through the book channel, including book fairs (which were back in operation) grew at a blistering 81% pace.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/89752-comics-graphic-novel-sales-jumped-62-in-2021.html
Consumer sales of graphic novels, driven by manga, jumped 76% in the year, to an estimated $1.47 billion, while sales of comics increased 53%, to $435 million. Sales of digital comics, which had a

https://www.comicsbeat.com/comics-book-reality-shows/
The Real World's second season in 1994 arguably cemented the show in the culture of the time, with aspiring cartoonist Judd Winick at the heart of it via his friendship with the HIV+ cast member Pedro Zamora, who died soon after the season aired.Winick gained fame with his memoir Pedro and Me and went on to have a very successful career as a cartoonist, comics writer and AIDS educator.

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/top-10-comic-books-rising-scrooge-deadpool-authority/
Top 10 Comic Books Rising in Value for the Week of 06/24/24 1: Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime #1 - Gabriele Dell'Otto (1:10) | Marvel | June 2024: What a stir this book is causing!

https://gocollect.com/blog/why-comic-book-rarity-matters-to-collectors-and-investors/
1st Green Goblin: 1,938 past sales at the time of this writing. Green Giant Comics #1: 4 total past sales at the time of this writing. ... Few copies could have been graded because the book is not that valuable. Low sales numbers may be indicative of a high price point. The job of the collector and investor is to use their experience and

https://www.cbr.com/japanese-manga-vs-american-comics-why-more-popular/
As Publishers Weekly cited, manga sales accounted for almost 45% of all comic books sold in 2022. Manga sales also outpaced the once-dominant children's comics and helped revive comic sales in 2022. This was important since the COVID-19 pandemic decimated countless industries.