Comics and Graphic Novel Sales Increase by over 60% in 2021

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According to Comichron, comic book sales have pretty much exploded in recent times.

https://comichron.com/yearlycomicssa...ustrywide.html

Unfortunately, the "youtube crowd" won't report this because this goes completely against the narrative that "PoliTICs is kiLLIng COMIcs!". Yes this figure includes manga but sales on periodicals have gone up too.

According to comichron-

Publishers made more selling comics content than in any year in the history of the business, even when adjusted for inflation,” Miller said of the 2021 estimates. “The biggest year in the modern era, 1993, saw sales of around $1.6 billion in 2021 dollars — and the pricier product mix puts 2021 ahead of what the colossal circulations of the early 1950s brought in, also adjusted for inflation.”

Topping 2020 numbers was easily done, as most brick-and-mortar retailers were shut down to foot traffic for periods during the year, but it was more impressive that numbers exceeded 2019’s by a hefty margin. Graphic novel sales were especially strong in the manga category, and periodical comics also had a great year, easily beating 2019.

While graphic novels lead the way, comic sales also exhibited high growth in 2021,” Griepp noted. “Graphic novels were up an astounding 76% growth across channels, while comics were up 53% vs. 2020 and up 23% vs. 2019.”

[Iron Maiden]

Nice to see that ComicChron and ICv2 are still chasing those sales figures. I like that they are combining print and digital sales in those stats. I don't think that's been done before. The big 2 have been getting less open about those especially since Marvel and DC stopped using Diamond Distributors. They were a source for a lot of that data over the years.

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Nice to see that ComicChron and ICv2 are still chasing those sales figures. I like that they are combining print and digital sales in those stats. I don't think that's been done before. The big 2 have been getting less open about those especially since Marvel and DC stopped using Diamond Distributors. They were a source for a lot of that data over the years.

Yeah, they now use Point of Sale data to generate the sales figures.

Focus is now more on actual sales than estimated sales figures since Marvel and DC have almost completely pulled out of Diamond distribution.

But it does seem that comic sales have been a bit "underestimated" for a few years now.

[Frontier]

Good to see .