Will the Walking Dead TV show sell Walking Dead Comics?

[Doug!]

I guess I wasn't clear: I'd love to know how sales of TWS trades/hardcovers/compendiums have increased since the show premiered on Halloween. I guess there's been no statement made by Kirkman or Image about it, which means there might not be an increase...because I sure as hell would be sharing a story like that if it were me and mine.

I don't know about other people but I've had a waiting list to borrow my copies of the trades.  That might be cannibalizing trade sales.

[ValorPhoeniX]

As graphic novels continue as source material for many media spin-offs, the way the originals are sold and marketed is changing. During the first year of The Great Recession, the industry term The Watchmen Effect had a different meaning than it does today. The trailer (not the movie) for the film adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel caused an uptick in sales from 45,000 copies in 2007 to 300,000 in 2008. At the time, it was strongly believed those readers would return to book and comics stores to buy more graphic novels. But two years later, graphic novel sales in the first half of 2010 declined 20% overall, with roughly half of that drop attributed to consumers no longer buying The Watchmen. There was however a bright spot in the sales figures for the second half of 2010 that shined, unsurprisingly, on another graphic novel with a media tie in. Sales of The Walking Dead trade collections, coupled with its smash hit first season on AMC TV drove a nearly 15% increase in total graphic novel sales to the same month in 2009.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/comics/article/45748-the-evolution-of-the-comics-media-tie-in.html

[Matt H.O.W.L.]

There was however a bright spot in the sales figures for the second half of 2010 that shined, unsurprisingly, on another graphic novel with a media tie in. Sales of The Walking Dead trade collections, coupled with its smash hit first season on AMC TV drove a nearly 15% increase in total graphic novel sales to the same month in 2009.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/comics/article/45748-the-evolution-of-the-comics-media-tie-in.html

Karma