Tag: bestsellers

Dog Man, Wing of Fire, The Babysitters Club and Warriors continue to sell lots and lots of books, and a graphic novel was the best selling book in the US in the first week of January.

The latest Dog Man book debuted at #1 on every bestseller list for the week.

Dav Pilkey's Fetch-22 has already sold a mind boggling 312,605 copies. 

And Dav Pilkey's latest Dog Man book was #3 overall

About a year ago the New York Times shocked the publishing industry by dropping 11 of its bestseller charts for books. Some were for rather arcane formats - YA ebooks - others were low class...

As you may know, I keep a little feed of Amazon's best selling graphic novels in my desktop, just to see what's charting. It's usually the same seven or eight books—Klling Joke, Watchmen, The Dark Knight, Saga, Fun Home, Persepolis and so on. But this week, along with a strong week for anything by Scott Snyder about Batman, there is a new #1 book, and it comes with a whiff of the new: Fart Wars by J.B. O'Neil. O'Neil who has self published this and several other volumes in The Disgusting Adventures of Milo Snotrocket series, has found a formula so profound it's truly astonishing no one came up with it before: mix one part Star Wars parody, one part Wimpy Kid simple drawing, and 20 parts fart humor and you have something that is smelling, er, selling briskly in the Kindle format.

Ah... another year draws to a close, and just like the Facebook New Years app, I analyze a year's worth of data, run my quirky algorithms, and post it for all to see.  And...

It's a new year, and what better time to take a look back at what happened in 2013? Regular readers of The Beat know me as the comic BOOK guy.  I'm a bookseller, a librarian,...

Every week, the New York Times runs bestseller listings, which include "Graphic Books".  There's a listing for Hardcover, Paperback, and Manga titles.  The Times dates the charts a week ahead of publication, while tabulating...

When the New York Times first started their "graphic books" bestseller lists, they included one for manga.  Why manga?  Why not one for superheroes, or comic strips, or any other segment of graphic novels? Most...

So as the new year approaches, I continue my look back at the graphic novels which made the New York Times bestseller lists in 2012. I'm a bookseller and librarian, and this past year saw...

As the end of the year approaches, it is commonplace to take a look back at the year, see where we've been, and if it foretells anything for the year ahead.  I'm a bookseller...