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A Couple of News items

Submitted by Erik Melander on February 20, 2007 - 06:44

Since I haven't been contributing much to Comixpedia in a while I feel a bit iffy about promoting my own posts to the frontpage so I thought I'd just compile a short list of newsitems here for the taking.

  • Retailer Brian Hibbs' analysis of 2006 Bookscan numbers (graphic novels sold through bookstores) is available at Newsarama. Megatokyo is fourth best selling among DC titles with its volume 4 selling 16,331 copies. Penny Arcade, from publisher Dark Horse, scores 13,213 copies for volume 1 and 7280 for volume 2.
  • Am I the only one who've missed that Les McClaine's Johnny Crossbones, which was nominated for the 2005 Eisner award for digital comics, has been picked up by Dark Horse as well.
  • Oops one more, Newsarama interviews Gina Briggs, whose webcomic Red String has also been picked up by Dark Horse (a pattern emerging?)

More Commentary on Bookscan Story

Xaviar Xerexes's picture

by Xaviar Xerexes - 02/20/2007 - 11:08

Journalista has roundup of links:

The debate over BookScan numbers, comics shops vs. bookstores, art-comics vs. superheroes and the like continues apace. Hibbs responds to yesterday’s diatribe at The Engine; Tom Spurgeon, Heidi MacDonald, Simon Jones and David Welsh offer commentary; and John Jakala points out that statements from First Second editorial director Mark Siegel indicate that there’s more going on than the BookScan numbers would seem to allow.

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Xaviar Xerexes

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