Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 April, 2024, 02:26:43 AMComic book market size in 2023 USD 16.05 billion. Not as much as video games and movies, but not to be sniffed at.
Wow -- that's more than I was expecting. Thanks for that info, Funt.
From what I can see, North America is about USD 6 billion of that USD 16 billion figure. Given a 600 million population and extrapolating from the (surprising) statistic that 37% of US adults say they read comics at least once a year, we're probably looking at a mean average annual spend of USD 27 per reader. I'd imagine that about 10% of the readership are whales accounting for half the sales, which would lower the mode to probably around USD 15.
(That 37% figure is far higher than I imagined, even for the US. Nice to see it's not quite as bleak as it seems.)