The Digital Comics Boom Nobody Can Actually Measure

Publisher’s Weekly wrote about the market of digital comics, and says it’s ostensibly improving after a slump: Less than three years ago, the lights on digital comics seemed to be getting dim. In November of 2023, Amazon announced the impending shutdown of the Comixology app—the platform that had accounted for the large majority of digital comics sales from every major U.S. publisher for the past 10 years. But a new digital landscape was quietly developing, as both longstanding comics publishers and upstart digital retailers carved out new approaches to producing, selling, and reaching an audience for online comics. Could 2026 be the year that the comics industry fully comes into its digital era? We talked with publishers and retailers to find out. The problem is that no sales figures, even digitally based, seem to turn up in this item, and that’s the common modern weakness in such puff pieces. Though it does say here that: Meanwhile, at Sweet Shop, another new retail platform that launched in beta in late 2025, Kenny Meyers has a different approach. In contrast to Neon Ichiban’s suite of features, Meyers believes that the key to digital success is to keep the app and market as sim...