From the new August figures;
PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES
RETAIL MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER
SHARE
MARVEL COMICS
33.70%
DC COMICS
30.16%
IMAGE COMICS
7.86%
IDW PUBLISHING
5.70%
DARK HORSE COMICS
5.47%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
3.01%
BOOM! STUDIOS
2.05%
EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD
1.34%
AVATAR PRESS INC
0.95%
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
0.94%
OTHER NON-TOP 10
8.83%
UNIT MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER
SHARE
MARVEL COMICS
36.30%
DC COMICS
33.14%
IMAGE COMICS
8.51%
IDW PUBLISHING
4.98%
DARK HORSE COMICS
4.80%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
2.93%
BOOM! STUDIOS
2.07%
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
1.03%
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
0.97%
ASPEN MLT INC
0.65%
OTHER NON-TOP 10
So that's the marketshare, divided into Units, the amount of titles sold and[...]
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Vaughan from Image comics Following up its three Eisner Awards this year, the series and its creators have taken home six Harvey Awards tonight Here's the complete list of Harvey Award winners, via Bleeding Cool senior New York Correspondent, Hannah Means-Shannon reporting from the Baltimore Comic-Con:
Letterer: Todd Klein for Fables
Color: Fiona Staples for Saga
Syndicated strip: Dick[...]
He's done work for Aspen, Image and Zenescope with a few things in the works now and he posts a lot of his new work on his blog so you can keep up with his latest stuff But talk is cheap, lets get to the interview and art:
BLEEDING COOL: How did you get started drawing?
BRENT PEEPLES:[...]
Walking Dead #115 is the tenth anniversary of the comic, and they're giving you ten covers to choose from, detailing the history of the comic in some kind
But the launch of Image comic Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
And with the film on the way, and lots of publicity everywhere, X-Men: Days Of Future Past puts Marvel at the top of the Reorder list for comics already out.
TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs (RETAIL)
Product
Price
Publisher
BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #23.4[...]
Rich Johnston talked to Glen Brunswick about his new Image Comic book with Victor Bogdanovic, published by Image Comics today.
Rich: They say write what you know Reality Check is a comic about a guy trying to create a comic book in the current marketplace, battling with loneliness, rejection, sexual inadequacy… and creating a really bad[...]
That's the cover to the second print of parody comic, The Mocking Dead, from Dynamite. I understand that it has just sold out of it's over-ten thousand
New Image Comics issue one For some, that means a speculatory opportunity, a chance to buy up a stack and sell them when the moment is ripe And certainly Image Comics launches have been good for that of late But will it work?
Love Stories (To Die For)
Pros:
Shadowline has produced a number of "sleeper" hits over[...]
And a teaser image.
The Revenger, by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill, to be published in January.
Ross has Image titles Turf and America's Got Powers to his name but is better known in the UK as the our preeminent TV broadcaster and chat show host Churchill has X-Men, Supergirl, Cable and more recently Marineman on his resume.
The[...]
She regularly presents images that are meant to stretch belief and imagination in ways that go much further than necessity demands Her work on full-page spreads helps unpack the story and gives the reader time to process the strangeness of what they are seeing while her close-ups and tighter panels challenge the reader to keep[...]
Image Comics has massively increased the profit margin on the second print of Saga #13, by increasing the discount to an unprecedented degree.
This is to encourage increased orders and promotions on the book from retailers The second print will come out on September the 25th, the same day Saga #14 comes out Along with the[...]
In November, Image is publishing The Art of Millarworld, featuring every Mark Millar creator owned title cover, regardless of publisher.
In the '40s, it was DC In the '60s, it was Marvel Now Millarworld has reshaped comics in the 21st century and turned into a powerhouse force to be reckoned with Riding a wave of grand[...]
The first issue, in which Zero encounters a bioengineered terrorist whose body is a bomb, is drawn by Michael Walsh, who previously worked on the critically-acclaimed time travel Image series COMEBACK, written by Ed Brisson.
Subsequent issues will be drawn by comics stars like Mateus Santolouco (Dial H, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Morgan Jeske (CHANGE), Tradd[...]
It's Wednesday! Lots of comics came out today! Here are a few thoughts about a few of them. Mostly (but not totally) ones I haven't talked about already
Or how in one store Batman Li'l Gotham makes the top 10 but I doubt that it will hold against the other stores that contribute.
Infinity did gangbusters! A really strong week for Image with the shipment of three of their strongest titles Saga has actually outsold Walking Dead so far this week; though I do[...]