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Growth on Growth: Direct Market Comic and Graphic Novel Sales Continue to Climb in 2026
Posted by Brigid Alverson on October 16, 2026 @ 12:25 pm CT
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brigid Alverson
Contributing Editor. Alverson has been writing about comics since she launched MangaBlog in 2005. She wrote the Comics A.M. column for Robot 6 (now part of CBR), and currently edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. In her earlier life, she had roles at magazine and book publishers.
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