Anyone who says ‘comics’ when they mean ‘Marvel & DC’ hasn’t read any sales data for the last decade, and is discrediting the medium. https://twitter.com/tkopresents/status/1313565286151274496

Sorry, I know that I sound like a broken record, but, North American sales 2018:
Juvenile - Fiction - 41%
Manga - 28%
Superhero titles - 10%
Juvenile - Non-fiction - 3%
Young adult - Fiction - 3%
Fantasy - 3%
Sci-fi - 2%
General - 2%
Other - 8%
Crowd funded - Less than 1%

Stats from ICV2 & Comichron. Anyone saying that superheroes are over represented in the medium, look at those. They’re not. They’re a weird niche in the medium (I’d add: I love them, but thems the facts). They’re overrepresented in the reporting and perception of the medium.

It’s old news by now, but a comic for children literally outsold every single other book in North America since it was published. Not every single comic. EVERY SINGLE BOOK. This isn’t a niche medium anymore, but most of comics commentary doesn’t understand the readership.