Anime News

Graphic Novels Keep Dollars Up Again
Date: 6/20/2005
Comic Periodicals Decline

June 20, 2005
Graphic novels were again the growth engine for over-all comic dollars in May, with a 36% growth rate in graphic novel dollars outweighing a 4% decline in periodical dollars to produce a 1% increase in dollar sales for comic periodicals and graphic novels combined vs. the same month in 2004.



May completed a five month string of growing graphic novel sales in comic stores. Comic periodicals have been flat to down during the same period.
Source: ICv2