Cold Cut Distribution has released its Top 300 books of 2006, a list dominated by the likes of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Lenore, Squee, Tintin, Optic Nerve and the like. In fact, Slave Labor books held the first 36 spots.
Cold Cut specializes in reorders for independent comics, so this list doesn’t really serve as an indy-mirror version of the Diamond charts. However, it makes for an interesting look at the staying power of some properties. For instance, Jhonen Vasquez’s perennial best-seller Johnny the Homicidal Maniac #1, which held Cold Cut’s No. 1 spot, was first published by Slave Labor in 1996.
It’s impossible to tell how many reorders that top spot represents — Cold Cut didn’t release sales figures — but it seems pretty impressive that JTHM is apparently still drawing new fans. (Eight of the Top 10 positions were held by individual issues of the series and the trade paperback.)
(Link via the Slave Labor blog)
January 15th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
SLG was smart with Johnny and lenore, releasing them through hot topics as well. i have single issues to JTHM and my copy of issue one is like the 15th printing.
January 16th, 2007 at 10:33 am
I read JTHM a few years ago when someone insisted I read it. To tell the truth I wasn’t exactly blown away by it so the fact that it endures the way it has is a little mystifying to me.