'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'Babymetal' GNs Debut on the Chart

NPD BookScan Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels – November 2018 (10/28/18 - 12/1/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 2 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 15 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 3 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 4 RWBY: OFFICIAL MANGA ANTHOLOGY VOL. 3 VARIOUS VIZ MEDIA 5 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 6 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 14 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 7 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 4 AKIRA HIMEKAWA VIZ MEDIA 8 DRAGON BALL: THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS YAMCHA! AKIRA TORIYAMA VIZ MEDIA 9 ONE PIECE VOL. 88 EIICHIRO ODA VIZ MEDIA 10 MOB PSYCHO 100 VOL. 1 ONE DARK HORSE 11 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 12 MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES VOL. 2 HIDEYUKI FURUHASHI VIZ MEDIA 13 FRANKENSTEIN: JUNJI ITO STORY COLLECTION HC JUNJI ITO VIZ MEDIA 14 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 5 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 15 RWBY: OFFICIAL MANGA ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 VARIOUS VIZ MEDIA 16 GOBLIN SLAYER VOL. 4 KUMO KAGYU YEN PRESS 17 RWBY: OFFICIAL MANGA ANTHOLOGY VOL 2 VARIOUS VIZ MEDIA 18 TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 1 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 19 TOKYO GHOUL: RE VOL. 7 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 20 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 6 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

From Watchmen to Fun Home to Dragon Ball, there are plenty of old standards on the charts of the top 20 adult graphic novels by category based on NPD BookScan data for November (10/28/18-12/1/18) provided to ICv2. But some newer titles make their mark as well, including a new manga series by the creator of One-Punch Man and a graphic biography of the band Babymetal. VIZ Media continues its domination of the manga chart, with 18 out of the 20 titles, spread among My Hero Academia (eight volumes), RWBY: Official Manga Anthology (three volumes) and a scattering of other titles. The sole Dark Horse Comics title, volume 1 of Mob Psycho 100, is by ONE, the creator of One-Punch Man, and probably benefits from his fandom.Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha, is almost fanfic, although it’s by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama: It’s a story about a Dragon Ball fan who dies on his way to a Dragon Ball event and comes back as Yamcha, a Dragon Ball character who has a somewhat checkered reputation. The appetite of Dragon Ball fans seems to be boundless.If there’s a head-scratcher on this chart, it’s volume 4 of Goblin Slayer. This is the first time this Yen Press series, which is an adaptation of a light novel, has shown up on the BookScan top 20. The anime, which started streaming on Crunchyroll in October, may be bringing more attention to the series.

Batman: White Knight leads the superhero chart; this trade is one of the first titles to be released under DC’s new Black Label imprint, which will feature stories that are outside the regular DC continuity (see "DC Begins Rebranding Old Material as Black Label"). The imprint will pop up more often, as DC plans to add perennial best-sellers Watchmen and Batman: The Killing Joke to the imprint as well (see "DC Expands Black Label Line for 2019").



DC Comics has nine titles on the chart, Marvel has six, and Dark Horse Comics has two. The Overwatch anthology is the sole game-based title, but there are several TV tie-ins as well as the Star Wars book.

NPD BookScan Top 20 'Superhero' Graphic Novels – November 2018 (10/28/18 - 12/1/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT SEAN MURPHY DC BLACK LABEL 2 CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA ARCHIE COMIC PUB. 3 BATMAN VOL. 7 (REBIRTH) TOM KING DC COMICS 4 INFINITY GAUNTLET JIM STARLIN MARVEL COMICS 5 WATCHMEN ALAN MOORE DC COMICS 6 OVERWATCH: ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 HC BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT DARK HORSE 7 V FOR VENDETTA ALAN MOORE DC COMICS 8 DARK NIGHTS: METAL: DLX. ED. HC SCOTT SNYDER DC COMICS 9 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 1: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 10 STAR WARS: DARTH VADER - DARK LORD OF THE SITH VOL. 3 CHARLES SOULE MARVEL COMICS 11 BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE DLX. ED. HC ALAN MOORE DC COMICS 12 X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN - SECOND GENESIS ED PISKOR MARVEL 13 FIREFLY: LEGACY EDITION BOOK ONE ZACK WHEDON BOOM! STUDIOS 14 JUSTICE LEAGUE VOL. 1 SCOTT SNYDER DC COMICS 15 THE LEGEND OF KORRA: TURF WARS PART 3 MICHAEL DANTE DIMARTINO DARK HORSE BOOKS 16 THE MAN OF STEEL HC BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS DC COMICS 17 DARK NIGHTS: METAL: DARK KNIGHTS RISING HC PETER TOMASI DC COMICS 18 RUNAWAYS BY RAINBOW ROWELL & KRIS ANKA VOL. 2 RAINBOW ROWELL MARVEL COMICS 19 DEADPOOL KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE CULLEN BUNN MARVEL COMICS 20 INFINITY WAR JIM STARLIN MARVEL COMICS Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

The top title on the Author chart is The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, which is not surprising as this book has been extraordinarily popular. Next up is the adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, perhaps helped by the press tour for the new Broadway adaptation, followed by the latest volumes of Saga and The Walking Dead, and then an adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank.



The first book of March makes its monthly appearance, as does Fun Home; these two are perennials. There are plenty of newer titles as well, though, including two late-October releases, To Kill a Mockingbird and Apocrypha: The Legend of Babymetal (see “Kawaii Metal Comes to Comics”).



Image Comics is the top publisher, with eight books in the top 20, but only three titles: Saga, The Walking Dead, and Monstress.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Author Graphic Novels – November 2018 (10/28/18 - 12/1/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 THE ADVENTURE ZONE: HERE THERE BE GERBLINS CLINT MCELROY FIRST SECOND BOOKS 2 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: A GRAPHIC NOVEL HC HARPER LEE HARPER 3 SAGA VOL. 9 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 4 THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 30 ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 5 ANNE FRANK'S DIARY THE GRAPHIC ADAPTATION HC ANNE FRANK PANTHEON BOOKS 6 SHEETS BRENNA THUMMLER LION FORGE 7 WALKING DEAD BOOK 15 HC ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 8 MARCH: BOOK ONE JOHN LEWIS TOP SHELF PROD. 9 EVERYONE'S A ALIEBN WHEN UR A ALIEBN TOO: A BOOK HC JOMNY SUN HARPER PERENNIAL 10 ANTHONY BOURDAIN'S HUNGRY GHOST HC ANTHONY BOURDAIN BERGER BOOKS 11 AM I THERE YET?: THE LOOP-DE-LOOP, ZIGZAGGING JOURNEY TO ADULTHOOD HC MARI ANDREW CLARKSON POTTER PUB. 12 THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 29 ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 13 FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC ALISON BECHDEL MARINER BOOKS 14 APOCRYPHA: THE LEGEND OF BABYMETAL THE PROPHET OF THE FOX GOD Z2 COMICS 15 SABRINA HC NICK DRNASO DRAWN & QUARTERLY 16 SAGA VOL. 8 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 17 MONSTRESS VOL. 3 MARJORIE LIU IMAGE COMICS 18 THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM VOL. 1 ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 19 SAGA VOL. 1 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 20 SCOTT PILGRIM PRECIOUS LITTLE BOX SET [W/ POSTER] BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY ONI PRESS Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

For charts of November graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:

November 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels

November 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels



For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:

November 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales

November 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales

November 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Superhero, Manga, Author Graphic Novels with Actual Sales

NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more. NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market. The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales. Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; we've removed those titles from the ranking above.



For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the "BookScan Top 20 GN Index."