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Friday, April 04, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: April 3

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/04/2008 11:26:00 AM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (2) Naruto 28, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
2. (1) Fruits Basket 19, Natsuki Takay (Tokyopop)
3. (-) Vampire Knight 4, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
4. (3) Fullmetal Alchemist 16, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
5. (15) Naruto 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (4) Negima! 17: Magister Negi Magi, Toshifumi/Hiroe (Random House)
7. (30) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (11) Death Note 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
9. (5) Death Note 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
10. (14) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
11. (7) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (6) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
13. (9) Death Note 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
14. (31) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
15. (8) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
16. (13) Naruto 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (10) Naruto 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (12) Death Note 12, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
19. (-) Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks et al (Random House)
20. (24) Death Note 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
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21. (17) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
22. (16) Fruits Basket 1, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
23. (21) Bleach, Vol. 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
24. (-) Naruto 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (-) Naruto 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
26. (32) Death Note 13, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
27. (19) Death Note 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
28. (-) Yozakura Quartet , Suzuhito Yasuda/Satsuki Yamashita (Random House)
29. (18) Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
30. (-) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
31. (20) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David (Marvel)
32. (38) Naruto 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
33. (22) Persepolis 1, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
34. (45) Death Note 5, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
35. (27) Black Cat 13, Kentaro Yabuk (VIZ)
36. (25) Naruto 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
37. (43) Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
38. (-) Naruto 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
39. (-) Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
40. (26) Death Note 6, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
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41. (-) Naruto 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
42. (-) Asterix and the Falling Sky,, Uderzo (Orion)
43. (-) Bleach 2, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
44. (-) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
45. (41) Hell Girl 1, Miyuki Eto (Random House)
46. (-) Naruto 5, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
47. (-) Essential Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
48. (-) Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
49. (39) One Piece 17, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
50. (23) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)

The graphic version of Terry Brooks' Shannara fantasy novels, Dark Wraith of Shannara makes an impressive debut at #19. Likewise a high debut for a Canadian book that has been creeping up the All-Canadian list, Skim, at #30. See here for last week's list. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies.

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to Dan DeCarlo to Oor Willie to Avril Lavigne duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 25 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30
from BookManager

1. (2) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (1) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
3. (5) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
4. (3) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
5. (25) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke Jeph Loeb J Bone (DC)
6. (7) The New Frontier 2 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
7. (-) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
8. (4) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
9. (-) Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe, John Bell (Dundurn)
10. (12) Extraction!: a comix reportage, Tessier/Dubois (Cumulous)
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11. (6) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (8) The New Frontier 1 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
13. (13) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
14. (14) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (19) Keep the Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (22) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
17. (21) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (NMK/IDW)
18. (28) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (-) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (-) Northwest Passage, Scott Chantler (Oni)
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21. (-) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (-) Zombies Calling!, Faith Erins Hicks (Slave Labor)
23. (-) Middle Aged Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (9) The BackBench Collection, Graham Harrop (Ronsdale)
25. (10) Last Straw (1985), Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
26. (16) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
27. (17) Albert and the Others, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
28. (15) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
29. (18) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
30. (20) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)

I think Zombies Calling! is the only new new book on the list. Everything else has been off and on the list for some time. The top 4 on the All-Canadian list rank in the top 60 overall. #5 ranks at 125 overall. #8 is 360 overall. #14 is 560 overall. #22 is 800 overall. Etc.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: March 26

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/26/2008 06:00:00 AM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (-) Fruits Basket 19, Natsuki Takay (Tokyopop)
2. (1) Naruto 28, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (21) Fullmetal Alchemist 16, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
4. (2) Negima! 17: Magister Negi Magi, Ken Akamatsu Toshifumi Yoshida Ikoi Hiroe (Random House)
5. (4) Death Note 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
6. (8) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
7. (17) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (50) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
9. (11) Death Note 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
10. (-) Naruto 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
11. (16) Death Note 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
12. (-) Death Note 12, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
13. (5) Naruto 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (10) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (3) Naruto 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (-) Fruits Basket 1, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
17. (28) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
18. (31) Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
19. (35) Death Note 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
20. (34) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David (Marvel)
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21. (9) Bleach, Vol. 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
22. (7) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
23. (33) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
24. (-) Death Note 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
25. (6) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
26. (18) Death Note 6, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
27. (32) Black Cat, Vol. 13, Kentaro Yabuk (VIZ)
28. (13) Chibi Vampire 7, Kagesaki Yuna (Tokyopop)
29. (37) Death Note 8, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
30. (29) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
31. (22) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
32. (14) Death Note 13, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
33. (19) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
34. (-) Fullmetal Alchemist 1, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
35. (20) xxxHOLiC 11, Clamp (Random House)
36. (-) Death Note 9, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
37. (39) Fruits Basket 2, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
38. (15) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
39. (38) One Piece 17, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
40. (-) Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
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41. (27) Hell Girl 1, Miyuki Eto (Random House)
42. (44) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
43. (30) Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
44. (46) Hack Gu 1, Hamazaki Tatsuya (Tokyopop)
45. (-) Death Note 5, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
46. (-) Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)
47. (24) Wild Ones 2, Kiyo Fujiwara (VIZ)
48. (25) Maus I, Art Spiegelman (Knopf)
49. (23) Tsubasa 16: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
50. (43) Mamotte! Lollipop 5, Michiyo Kikuta (Random House)

Naruto and Death Note seem to be having a friendly competition for most books in the top 50.

See here for last week's list. . The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies.

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to Dan DeCarlo to Oor Willie to Avril Lavigne duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 25 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30
from BookManager

1. (1) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
2. (2) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (3) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (4) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
5. (10) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
6. (5) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. (15) The New Frontier 2 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
8. (16) The New Frontier 1 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
9. (6) The BackBench Collection, Graham Harrop (Ronsdale)
10. (7) Last Straw (1985), Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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11. (17) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
12. (-) Extraction!: a comix reportage, Tessier/Dubois (Cumulous)
13. (-) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
14. (24) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (8) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
16. (25) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
17. (27) Albert and the Others, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
18. (9) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
19. (-) Keep the Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (23) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
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21. (11) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (NMK/IDW)
22. (12) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
23. (13) Degrassi Extra Credit 3: Missing You, J Torres/Eric Kim (Pocket)
24. (14) There Goes My Baby, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (19) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke Jeph Loeb J Bone (DC)
26. (20) Degrassi Extra Credit 4, J Torres Steve Rolston (Pocket)
27. (21) What, Me Pregnant? (1991) Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. (18) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
29. (22) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
30. (-) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)

Multiple books in the top 30 for Chester Brown, Lynn Johnston, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Svetlana Chmakova, Darwyn Cooke, J. Torres, and Jeff Lemire!

Although a perennial favourite, Brown's I Never Liked You is the only new entry to the list that hasn't been seen there in the last 5 months. Forgivable, since it was originally published in 2004. The New Frontier franchise continues its resurgence, spurred by dvd and comic book sales, perhaps? Of the most recently published, Skim seems to be showing the fastest growth outside the #1 spot.

Labels: analysis, bestsellers, BookManager, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga, publishing

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: March 20

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/20/2008 12:01:00 AM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Naruto, Vol. 28, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
2. (2) Negima! 17: Magister Negi Magi, Ken Akamatsu Toshifumi Yoshida Ikoi Hiroe (Random House)
3. (4) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (3) Death Note, Vol. 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
5. (6) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (9) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (16) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
8. (14) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
9. (5) Bleach, Vol. 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
10. (7) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
11. (17) Death Note 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
12. (8) Death Note 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
13. (18) Chibi Vampire 7, Kagesaki Yuna (Tokyopop)
14. (15) Death Note 13, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
15. (11) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (10) Death Note 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
17. (12) Naruto, Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (21) Death Note 6, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
19. (33) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
20. (-) xxxHOLiC 11, Clamp (Random House)
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21. (-) Fullmetal Alchemist 16, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
22. (40) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
23. (13) Tsubasa 16: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
24. (23) Wild Ones 2, Kiyo Fujiwara (VIZ)
25. (-) Maus I, Art Spiegelman (Knopf)
26. (22) Death Note 5, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
27. (-) Hell Girl 1, Miyuki Eto (Random House)
28. (19) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
29. (20) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (45) Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
31. (48) Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
32. (24) Black Cat, Vol. 13, Kentaro Yabuk (VIZ)
33. (31) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
34. (50) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David (Marvel)
35. (-) Death Note 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
36. (25) Naruto 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
37. (-) Death Note 8, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
38. (35) One Piece 17, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
39. (-) Fruits Basket 2, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
40. (-) Fruits Basket 4, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
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41. (-) Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures 1, Haden Blackman, et al (Dark Horse)
42. (-) My Heavenly Hockey Club 4, Ai Morinaga (Random House)
43. (-) Mamotte! Lollipop 5, Michiyo Kikuta (Random House)
44. (39) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
45. (26) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
46. (28) Hack Gu 1, Hamazaki Tatsuya (Tokyopop)
47. (29) Bleach 20, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
48. (27) Naruto, Official Fanbook, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
49. (-) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
50. (30) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)

I believe these numbers reflect part of March Break and an increase in youngsters buying more Naruto (Volume 28 has certainly spurred sales of closer volumes in the series) as well as Death Note (everyone's favourite manga about a highschool-aged mass murderer). A couple newly-published manga at 42 & 43, as well.

See here for last week's list. . The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies.

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to Dan DeCarlo to Oor Willie to Avril Lavigne duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 25 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30
from BookManager

1. (3) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
2. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (2) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (4) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
5. (11) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (24) The BackBench Collection, Graham Harrop (Ronsdale)
7. (23) Last Straw (1985), Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (5) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
9. (6) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
10. (7) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
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11. (8) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (insomniac/IDW)
12. (-) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
13. (21) Degrassi Extra Credit 3: Missing You, J Torres/Eric Kim (Pocket)
14. (-) There Goes My Baby, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (-) The New Frontier 2 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
16. (25) The New Frontier 1 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
17. (10) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
18. (9) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (30) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke Jeph Loeb J Bone (DC)
20. (-) Degrassi Extra Credit 4, J Torres Steve Rolston (Pocket)
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21. (-) What, Me Pregnant? (1991) Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (12) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
23. (13) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
24. (14) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (15) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
26. (16) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
27. (17) Albert and the Others, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
28. (19) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (18) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (20) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, ed. George A Walker (Firefly)

Canadian cartoonists, do not despair! It is the case with this list that on oany given week, a 17-year-old collection of For Better or For Worse comic strips will outsell your graphic novel. It is just a fact of the universe.

I feel safe in saying that Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier (inexplicably still available in multilpe volumes and formats) got a boost this week from the release of the dvd animated adaptation.

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Friday, March 14, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: March 13

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/14/2008 01:00:00 PM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo and Walmart are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 25 by Canadian creators.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (-) Naruto, Vol. 28, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
2. (-) Negima! 17: Magister Negi Magi, Ken Akamatsu Toshifumi Yoshida Ikoi Hiroe (Random House)
3. (12) Death Note, Vol. 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
4. (9) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (1) Bleach, Vol. 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
6. (5) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (13) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (11) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
9. (4) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (21) Death Note, Vol. 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
11. (32) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (2) Naruto, Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (3) Tsubasa 16: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
14. (-) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
15. (7) Death Note, Vol. 13, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
16. (6) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
17. (10) Death Note, Vol. 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
18. (-) Chibi Vampire 7, Kagesaki Yuna (Tokyopop)
19. (19) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
20. (8) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. (-) Death Note 6, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
22. (16) Death Note 5, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
23. (-) Wild Ones 2, Kiyo Fujiwara (VIZ)
24. (-) Black Cat, Vol. 13, Kentaro Yabuk (VIZ)
25. (35) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
26. (-) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
27. (15) Naruto, Official Fanbook, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
28. (18) Hack Gu 1, Hamazaki Tatsuya (Tokyopop)
29. (-) Bleach 20, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
30. (14) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
31. (17) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
32. (20) Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
33. (27) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
34. (-) Bleach 19, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
35. (-) One Piece 17, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
36. (-) Bleach 21, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
37. (-) Death Note 11, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
38. (-) Wild Ones 1, Kiyo Fujiwara (VIZ)
39. (29) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
40. (31) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
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41. (28) Bleach 2, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
42. (-) Naruto 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
43. (49) Fruits Basket 3, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
44. (48) Naruto Vol. 5, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
45. (-) Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
46. (-) Death Note 9, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
47. (-) Fullmetal Alchemist 1, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
48. (26) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
49. (33) Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins)
50. (23) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David (Marvel)

Well, after skipping a week (the list vanished when my computer crashed), we're back for the March Break. The new, heavily-hyped volume of Naruto has been at #1 for two weeks now. Kean Soo has displaced Lynn Johnston as the highest ranking Canadian, at #14.

See here for last week's list. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies.

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to Dan DeCarlo to Oor Willie to Avril Lavigne duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 25 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 25
from BookManager

1. (3) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
2. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (2) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (4) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
5. (5) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
6. (6) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
7. (10) Skim, Marissa Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
8. (15) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (insomniac/IDW)
9. (8) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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10. (9) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
11. (7) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (24) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
13. (20) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
14. (-) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (14) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
16. (17) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
17. (-) Albert and the Others, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
18. (13) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
19. (-) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (-) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, ed. George A Walker (Firefly)
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21. (-) Degrassi Extra Credit 3: Missing You, J Torres/Eric Kim (Pocket)
22. (11) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
23. (12) Last Straw (1985), Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (-) The BackBench Collection, Graham Harrop (Ronsdale)
25. (18) The New Frontier 1 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
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26. (19) Northwest Passage: The Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)
27. (22) 365 Days, Julie Doucet (D+Q)
28. (21) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (25) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (-) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke Jeph Loeb J Bone (DC)

I added another 5 this week for variety.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Feb 27

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/27/2008 03:00:00 PM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo and Walmart are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 25 by Canadian creators.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Bleach, Vol. 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
2. (4) Naruto, Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (6) Tsubasa 16: Reservoir Chronicle (Paperback), Clamp (Random House)
4. (2) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (5) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (3) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
7. (14) Death Note, Vol. 13, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
8. (9) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
9. (8) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (-) Death Note, Vol. 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
11. (24) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
12. (10) Death Note, Vol. 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
13. (7) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (40) Vampire Knight Vol. 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
15. (36) Naruto, Official Fanbook, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (31) Death Note, Vol. 5, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
17. (-) Vampire Knight Vol. 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
18. (17) Hack Gu Vol. 1, Hamazaki Tatsuya (Tokyopop)
19. (11) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
20. (13) Naruto Vol. 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (12) Death Note, Vol. 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
22. (-) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (45) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David (Marvel)
24. (-) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (16) Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 5, Yuu Watase (VIZ)
26. (19) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
27. (23) Bleach, Vol. 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
28. (25) Bleach, Vol. 2, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
29. (20) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
30. (-) Asterix and the Falling Sky, Uderzo (Orion)
31. (-) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
32. (18) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
33. (-) Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins)
34. (-) Death Note, Another Note (prose novel), Nisioisin (VIZ)
35. (30) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
36. (15) Fruits Basket 1, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
37. (26) Bleach, Vol. 3, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
38. (43) Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)
39. (27) Naruto, Vol. 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
40. (21) Negima! 16: Magister Negi Magi, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
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41. (-) Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
42. (-) Naruto, Vol. 15, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
43. (32) Naruto, Vol. 18, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
44. (-) Shugo Chara! 3, Peach-Pit (Random House)
45. (22) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
46. (-) Kitchen Princess 5, Miyuki Kobayashi Natsumi Ando (Random House)
47. (47) Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
48. (49) Naruto Vol. 5, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
49. (34) Fruits Basket 3, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
50. (-) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)

Lots more Naruto, again. The volumes tend to jump around quite a bit with very few ranks repeated week to week. The highest ranked Naruto always varies, but Naruto 16 hasbeen at #47 for three weeks now. A reflection of the actual market, or a function of BookManager's tracking software? Who can say? Naruto occupies 17 of the 50 spaces this week. Other titles jump around as well. Over the last 3 weeks, the Dark Tower has ranked 45, 14, and 23. Ditto Louis Riel, which has been 20, 25, and 37.

See here for last week's list. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies.

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to Dan DeCarlo to Oor Willie to Avril Lavigne duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 25 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 25
from BookManager

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (4) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
4. (3) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
5. (7) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
6. (10) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
7. (12) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (19) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (5) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
10. (-) Skim, Marissa Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
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11. (6) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
12. (-) Last Straw (1985), Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (-) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (9) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
15. (8) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (insomniac)
16. (22) The Collected New Frontier (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
17. (-) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
18. (-) The New Frontier 1 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
19. (-) Northwest Passage: The Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)
20. (11) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
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21. (-) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (-) 365 Days, Julie Doucet (D+Q)
23. (-) Portfoolio 22, Guy Badoux et al (Mcarthur)
24. (13) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
25. (14) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

An impressive debut for Skim and slightly less dominance for Lynn Johnston (6/25 vs 10/25 last week).

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Feb 20

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/20/2008 12:01:00 PM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo and Walmart are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 25 by Canadian creators.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (4) Bleach, Vol. 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
2. (10) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (12) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
4. (43) Naruto, Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (6) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (1) Tsubasa 16: Reservoir Chronicle (Paperback), Clamp (Random House)
7. (15) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (2) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (3) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (5) Death Note, Vol. 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
11. (7) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
12. (16) Death Note, Vol. 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
13. (24) Naruto Vol. 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (-) Death Note, Vol. 13, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
15. (-) Fruits Basket 1, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
16. (9) Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 5, Yuu Watase (VIZ)
17. (-) Hack Gu Vol. 1, Hamazaki Tatsuya (Tokyopop)
18. (11) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
19. (32) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
20. (37) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
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21. (22) Negima! 16: Magister Negi Magi, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
22. (8) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
23. (19) Bleach, Vol. 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
24. (28) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
25. (-) Bleach, Vol. 2, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
26. (-) Bleach, Vol. 3, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
27. (25) Naruto, Vol. 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
28. (13) Godchild, Vol. 8, Kaori Yuki (VIZ)
29. (-) Naruto, Vol. 7, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. (17) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
31. (-) Death Note, Vol. 5, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
32. (-) Naruto, Vol. 18, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
33. (-) Asterix at the Olympic Games, Goscinny & Uderzo (Orion)
34. (-) Fruits Basket 3, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
35. (-) Fruits Basket 2, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
36. (-) Naruto, Official Handbook, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
37. (-) Fall In Love Like a Comic Vol. 2, Chitose Yagami (VIZ)
38. (-) Hana-Kimi, Vol. 22, Hisaya Nakajo (VIZ)
39. (29) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
40. (36) Vampire Knight Vol. 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
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41. (18) Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 15, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
42. (-) Naruto, Vol. 9, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
43. (33) Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)
44. (31) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
45. (14) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David (Marvel)
46. (46) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Yellow, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
47. (47) Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
48. (-) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
49. (-) Naruto Vol. 5, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
50. (48) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Watterson (Andrews McMeel)

Whew! It's quite an effort to keep track of all those Naruto, Death Note, and Bleach volumes. I find it hard to believe that the Bookmanager lists are sophisticated enough to keep track of these differences, especially when I see such wild fluctuations in rank from week to week. That being said, the most salient aspect of this week's list, as with the last several months' lists, is that all volumes of Naruto are popular (there are 16 in the top 50).

See here for last week's list. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. One other note: if the publishers of Persepolis would concentrate on a single volume, wouldn't they have a higher ranked book?

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to Dan DeCarlo to Jerry Siegel to Tove Janssen duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where the Canadian Top 25 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 25
from BookManager

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (5) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
4. (3) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
5. (10) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
6. (4) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (12) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
8. (16) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (insomniac)
9. (6) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
10. (8) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
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11. (9) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
12. (7) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (18) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
14. (19) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (21) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke Jeph Loeb J Bone (DC)
16. (11) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (25) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (14) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
19. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
20. (15) Graphic Witness: 4 Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
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21. (-) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (-) The New Frontier (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
23. (-) Striking A Cord, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (-) It'S The Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (-) It's All Downhill From Here, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

That last one was published in 1987. Lynn Johnston collections (10 in all) continue to be the favourite snack food of Canadians (or maybe it's more accurate to say that For Better or For Worse is the Naruto of Canada (except that Naruto is already the Naruto of Canada)). Svetlana Chmakova, Darwyn Cooke, and Jeff Lemire also score with multiple books on the list.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Feb 14

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/15/2008 09:45:00 AM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo and Walmart are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 25 by Canadian creators.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (-) Tsubasa 16: Reservoir Chronicle (Paperback), Clamp (Random House)
2. (6) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (2) Bleach, Vol. 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
5. (5) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
6. (4) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (3) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
8. (7) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
9. (10) Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 5, Yuu Watase (VIZ)
10. (8) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
11. (9) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (11) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
13. (-) Godchild, Vol. 8, Kaori Yuki (VIZ)
14. (12) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David/Robin Furth (Marvel)
15. (24) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (14) Death Note, Volume 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
17. (13) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (15) Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 15, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
19. (25) Bleach, Vol. 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
20. (21) Hell Girl 1, Miyuki Eto (Random House)
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21. (-) Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, Charles M Schulz (Perseus Books)
22. (29) Negima! 16: Magister Negi Magi, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
23. (36) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
24. (38) Naruto Vol. 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (41) Naruto, Volume 3: Vol. 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
26. (18) Bleach, Vol. 21, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
27. (33) Dilbert: Cubes and Punishment, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
28. (17) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
29. (19) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. (22) Vampire Knight Vol. 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
31. (16) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
32. (20) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
33. (42) Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)
34. (34) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
35. (26) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
36. (32) Vampire Knight Vol. 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
37. (28) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
38. (35) Death Note, Vol 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
39. (-) Fruits Basket 12, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
40. (37) Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins)
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41. (31) Death Note, Vol 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
42. (27) Death Note, Vol 8, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
43. (30) Naruto, Vol. 2:2 Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
44. (23) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
45. (-) Naruto, Vol. 14, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
46. (44) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Yellow:Yellow, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
47. (39) Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
48. (40) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
49. (48) Bleach, Vol. 20, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
50. (-) The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)

See here for last week's list. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. This week, Lynn Johnston is bumped out of the top spot for the first time since Sequential started keeping these lists last year.

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to Dan DeCarlo to Jerry Siegel to Linda Medley duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where the Canadian Top 25 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 25
from BookManager

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (-) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
4. (-) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
5. (4) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
6. (6) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
7. (3) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (7) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
9. (11) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
10. (5) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
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11. (16) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (-) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
13. (-) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (8) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (9) Graphic Witness: 4 Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
16. (10) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (insomniac)
17. (18) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (19) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
19. (22) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (25) Northwest Passage: Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)
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21. (-) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke Jeph Loeb J Bone (DC)
22. (-) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (12) 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet (D+Q)
24. (13) Wimbledon Green, Seth (D+Q)
25. (-) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

This week, the newly-released Jellaby rockets to the #3 spot, Pyonyang & The Spirit return to the top 25, and "the Lynn Johnston assortment" is shuffled with a book from 1984 (!) ranking fairly high.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Feb 20

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/12/2008 12:01:00 AM

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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Feb 7

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/07/2008 04:36:00 PM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo and Walmart are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 25 by Canadian creators.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (-) Bleach, Vol. 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
3. (2) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (5) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (4) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
6. (6) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (3) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
8. (7) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (8) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (42) Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 5, Yuu Watase (VIZ)
11. (20) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
12. (9) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David/Robin Furth (Marvel)
13. (17) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (19) Death Note, Volume 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
15. (11) Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 15, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
16. (10) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
17. (-) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
18. (-) Bleach, Vol. 21, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
19. (15) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (13) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
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21. (-) Hell Girl 1, Miyuki Eto (Random House)
22. (14) Vampire Knight Vol. 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
23. (12) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
24. (31) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (32) Bleach, Vol. 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
26. (30) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
27. (33) Death Note, Volume 8, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
28. (43) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
29. (-) Negima! 16: Magister Negi Magi, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
30. (18) Naruto, Vol. 2:2 Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
31. (29) Death Note, Volume 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
32. (21) Vampire Knight Vol. 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
33. (16) Dilbert: Cubes and Punishment, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
34. (-) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
35. (27) Death Note, Volume 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
36. (-) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
37. (25) Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins)
38. (23) Naruto Vol. 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
39. (-) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
40. (24) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
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41. (28) Naruto, Volume 3: Vol. 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
42. (26) Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)
43. (35) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
44. (-) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Yellow:Yellow, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
45. (-) Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden, Vol. 6, Yuu Watase Yu Watase (VIZ)
46. (-) Death Note, Volume 5, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
47. (-) Fruits Basket 17, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
48. (-) Bleach, Vol. 20, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
49. (36) Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
50. (-) High School Debut Vol. 1, Kazune Kawahara (VIZ)

See here for last week's list. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. I have to suspect that there is something up with that last spate of manga books I had previously never heard of (Highschool Debut, Fushigi Yugi). The top 60 is filled out with non-manga stalwarts The Complete Persepolis, Buffy, and Watchmen).

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to Dan DeCarlo to Jerry Siegel to Linda Medley duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where the Canadian Top 25 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 25
from BookManager

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (2) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (6) Essex County Vol. 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
5. (4) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
6. (10) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
7. (5) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
8. (7) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
9. (13) Graphic Witness: 4 Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
10. (21) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (insomniac)
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11. (8) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
12. (9) 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet (D+Q)
13. (-) Wimbledon Green, Seth (D+Q)
14. (11) The BackBench Collection, Graham Harrop (Ronsdale Press)
15. (-) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (12) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (14) Scott Pilgrim 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
18. (15) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
19. (16) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
20. (17) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. (18) Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (19) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (22) Sunshine and Shadow, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (20) Scott Pilgrim 2: Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
25. (23) Northwest Passage: Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)

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Friday, February 01, 2008

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Jan 31

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/01/2008 12:01:00 AM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo and Walmart are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and the top 25 by Canadian creators.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
3. (3) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
4. (12) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
5. (5) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (4) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (9) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (7) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (6) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David/Robin Furth (Marvel)
10. (25) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
11. (11) Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 15, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
12. (8) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
13. (34) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
14. (-) Vampire Knight Vol. 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
15. (28) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (10) Dilbert: Cubes and Punishment, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
17. (13) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (-) Naruto, Vol. 2:2 Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
19. (15) Death Note, Volume 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
20. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
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21. (32) Vampire Knight Vol. 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
22. (-) Negima! 16: Magister Negi Magi, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
23. (-) Naruto Vol. 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (14) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
25. (-) Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins)
26. (-) Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)
27. (-) Death Note, Volume 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
28. (36) Naruto, Volume 3: Vol. 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
29. (-) Death Note, Volume 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
30. (23) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
31. (22) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
32. (35) Bleach, Vol. 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
33. (-) Death Note, Volume 8, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
34. (-) High School Debut Vol. 1, Kazune Kawahara Beth Kawasaki (VIZ)
35. (45) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
36. (30) Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
37. (20) Asterix and the Falling Sky, Albert Uderzo (Orion)
38. (8) Attack Of The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
39. (16) Alternative Zits, Jim Borgman Jerry Scott (Andrews McMeel)
40. (-) Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1: Season 8, Joss Whedon et al (Dark Horse)
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41. (-) The Wallflower 14, Tomoko Hayakawa (Random House)
42. (-) Absolute Boyfriend, Vol. 5, Yuu Watase (VIZ)
43. (-) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
44. (-) Death Note, Volume 9, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
45. (17) Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Andy Riley (Hodder)
46. (-) Black Cat Vol. 12, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ)
47. (-) Fruits Basket 1, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
48. (-) I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection, Darby Conley (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
49. (-) Asterix in Britain, Rene Goscinny Albert Uderzo (Orion)
50. (-) Watchmen, Alan Moore Dave Gibbons (DC)

See here for the previous list. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. The last list was a pre-Christmas but not much has changed.

The BookManager List is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to the Transformers to Jerry Siegel to Linda Medley duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where the Canadian Top 20 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 25
from BookManager

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (3) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (2) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (11) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
5. (4) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
6. (-) Essex County Vol. 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
7. (5) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (-) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
9. (-) 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet (D+Q)
10. (6) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
11. (-) The BackBench Collection, Graham Harrop (Ronsdale Press)
12. (-) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (10) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
14. (8) Scott Pilgrim 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (7) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (19) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
17. (17) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (18) Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
19. (15) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (-) Scott Pilgrim 2: Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
21. (-) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (insomniac)
22. (-) Sunshine and Shadow, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (14) Northwest Passage: Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)
24. (-) DC The New Frontier, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
25. (-) In Me Own Words, Graham Roumieu (MANIC D PRESS)

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Friday, December 28, 2007

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Dec 28

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/28/2007 01:43:00 AM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager (copyright TBM BookManager). This list is accurate for the week ending December 24. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 250 independent bookstores (including at least one comics shop). Sales through the majority of comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo and Walmart are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (2) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (4) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
3. (1) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
4. (3) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (5) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (7) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David/Robin Furth (Marvel)
7. (10) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (12) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
9. (6) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (19) Dilbert: Cubes and Punishment, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
11. (8) Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 15, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
12. (22) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
13. (17) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (16) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
15. (40) Death Note, Volume 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
16. (18) Alternative Zits, Jim Borgman Jerry Scott (Andrews McMeel)
17. (28) Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Andy Riley (Hodder)
18. (-) Attack Of The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
19. (-) I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection, Darby Conley (Andrews McMeel)
20. (-) Asterix and the Falling Sky, Albert Uderzo (Orion)
21. (9) Teaching Is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (14) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (31) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (-) Days Are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
25. (11) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
26. (50) Trivial Simpsons 2008 366 Day Calendar, Matt Groening (Harpercollins)
27. (24) Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
28. (13) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
29. (29) Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files, Shayne & Abrams (Watson-Guptill)
30. (35) Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
31. (-) Scientific Progress Goes Boink: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
32. (-) Vampire Knight Vol. 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
33. (25) The Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
34. (41) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
35. (-) Bleach, Vol. 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
36. (20) Naruto, Volume 3: Vol. 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
37. (-) Dilbert: Positive Attitude, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
38. (-) Big Beastly Book of Bart Simpson, Matt Groening (HarperCollins)
39. (15) The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
40. (-) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
41. (-) Naruto Vol. 7, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
42. (27) And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyest: A FoxTrot Collection, Bill Amend (Andrews McMeel)
43. (-) Naruto, Vol. 6, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
44. (-) Bleach, Vol. 21, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
45. (45) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
46. (-) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
47. (21) Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
48. (-) Death Note, Volume 12, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
49. (-) Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
50. (-) The Revenge of the Baby-Sat, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)

See here for last week's list. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. No surprises this week: gift books and Naruto. Happy Holidays!

The Top 1000 is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to the Transformers to Jerry Siegel to Linda Medley duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where the Canadian Top 20 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 20
from BookManager's Top 1000

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (4) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (3) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
5. (6) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (5) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
7. (9) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (8) Scott Pilgrim 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (11) Suddenly Silver, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (10) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
11. (12) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
12. (14) Portfoolio 22 [political cartoons], Guy Badeaux, et al (Mcarthur & Company)
13. (16) Extraction!: a comix reportage, Marc Tessier Fredric Dubois (Cumulus Press)
14. (18) Northwest Passage: Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)
15. (13) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (-) With This Ring, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (-) FAmily Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (-) Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
19. (-) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
20. (-) It's the Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

More Lynn Johnston than ever, it seems!

Tune in next week for the final week of 2007!

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Dec 19

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/19/2007 04:21:00 PM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager (copyright TBM BookManager). This list is accurate for the week ending December 9. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 250 independent bookstores (including at least one comics shop). Sales through the majority of comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo and Walmart are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (2) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
2. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (3) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (6) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
5. (5) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (4) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (7) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David/Robin Furth (Marvel)
8. (-) Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 15, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
9. (13) Teaching Is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (9) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
11. (8) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
12. (24) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
13. (10) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (11) Naruto Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)(
15. (18) The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
16. (27) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
17. (12) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (21) Alternative Zits, Jim Borgman Jerry Scott (Andrews McMeel)
19. (22) Dilbert: Cubes and Punishment, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
20. (26) Naruto, Volume 3: Vol. 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
21. (-) Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
22. (14) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
23. (47) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
24. (-) Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
25. (-) The Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
26. (-) Naruto, Vol. 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
27. (-) And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyest: A FoxTrot Collection, Bill Amend (Andrews McMeel)
28. (15) Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Andy Riley (Hodder)
29. (30) Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files, Shayne & Abrams (Watson-Guptill)
30. (-) Loserpalooza: A Get Fuzzy Treasury, Darby Conley (Andrews McMeel)
31. (19) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
32. (-) Tundra Comics Presents: True North, Chad Carpenter (Altitude)
33. (-) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
34. (20) Buffy 1: The Long Way Home/Season Eight, Joss Whedon et al (Dark Horse)
35. (16) Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
36. (-) The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
37. (-) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
38. (29) Naruto, Volume 2: Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
39. (35) Bleach, Vol. 3, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
40. (17) Death Note, Volume 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
41. (33) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
42. (-) The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)
43. (-) Stick To Drawing Comics Monkey Brain, Scott Adams (Portfolio)
44. (-) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History, Art Spiegelman (Knopf)
45. (23) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
46. (-) Vampire Knight Vol. 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
47. (37) Chibi Vampire 6, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
48. (28) Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins)
49. (45) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
50. (-) Trivial Simpsons 2008 366 Day Calendar, Matt Groening (Harpercollins)

See here for last week's list. I've added last week's ranking in parentheses, with a (-) indicating an absence from the top 50 last week --although books that were not in the top 50 last week were most likely in the top 100, with the possible exception of a few newly published hits. The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies (it is Xmas, after all). While it is still largely a Naruto world out there (aided and abetted by other series that benefit from the YTV-effect like Bleach ), the big news continues to be Christmas and a spate of sales for strip collections and classics, including tons of Calvin and Hobbes. Calendars (technically comics collections) are also big and one of the many Far Side calendars finally succeeded this week in knocking Lynn Johnston out of the top spot.

The Top 1000 is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to the Transformers to Jerry Siegel to Linda Medley duke it out and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where the Canadian Top 20 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 20
from BookManager's Top 1000

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (5) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
4. (3) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
5. (12) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
6. (4) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. (8) Scott Pilgrim 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (-) The BackBench Collection, Graham Harrop (Ronsdale Press)
9. (7) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (9) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
11. (13) Suddenly Silver, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (6) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
13. (17) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (-) Portfoolio 22 [political cartoons], Guy Badeaux, et al (Mcarthur & Company)
15. (20) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
16. (-) Extraction!: a comix reportage, Marc Tessier Fredric Dubois (Cumulus Press)
17. (11) the great hopeful someday, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum Press)
18. (16) Northwest Passage: Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)
19. (18) Striking A Cord, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (19) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)

The list continues with Therefore Repent!, Family Business: A For Better or For Worse Collection, With This Ring: A For Better or For Worse Collection, Dramacon 2, Remembering Farley, The Spirit Hardcover, Lynn Johnston's Last Straw, It'S The Thought That Counts: A For Better or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection, Middle Age Spread-Fbfw Collection, and The New Frontier, in that order. Yes, there are that many Lynn Johnston books in the top 1000.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Dec 12

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/12/2007 12:01:00 AM