Canadian Bestsellers: Summer Solstice Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/18/2009 09:00:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

Our second truncated list for the Summer Time. Normally, I compile a list of Top 30 overall and Top 30 by Canadian creators bestselling comic books. I just don't have the time lately, so I've decided to offer an infrequent, shorter version of the weekly list. If you are still jonesin' for a mainstream bestseller list, the Globe and Mail offered a list of graphic novels this past week that included all the usual suspects (Buffy, Wolverine, Naruto).

The bestselling graphic novels and comics collections in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most 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. (The other day, George Sprott was #10 on amazon.ca). See here for our previous list.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanese manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians. This list does not include books that are only illustrated but not written/created-by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 20 from BookManager

1. (1) Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist, Doug Wright (D+Q)
2. (5) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (10) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
5. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (4) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
7. (7) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (13) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
9. (-) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
10. (3) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
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11. (-) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
12. (11) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
13. (9) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)
14. (12) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
15. (8) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
16. (14) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
17. (-) Pohadky, Marek Colek Pat Shewchuck (D+Q)
18. (-) Papercut Heart, Ian Sullivan Cant (Conundrum)
19. (-) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (-) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)

(last week's rank in parentheses)
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Sequential Bestsellers: Shorter Version

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/05/2009 07:00:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

A truncated list for the Summer Time. Normally, I compile a list of Top 30 overall and Top 30 by Canadian creators bestselling comic books. I just don't have the time lately, so I've decided to offer an infrequent, shorter version of the weekly list.

The bestselling graphic novels and comics collections in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most 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.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanese manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians. This list does not include books that are only illustrated but not written/created-by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 20 from BookManager

1. (3) Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist, Doug Wright (D+Q)
2. (1) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (6) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
4. (-) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
5. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
6. (5) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
7. (7) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (30) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
9. (4) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)
10. (8) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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11. (9) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
12. (14) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
13. (8) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (11) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (12) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
16. (24) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
17. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
18. (11) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (22) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q)
20. (15) Kaspar, Diane Obomsawin (D+Q)


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Sequential Bestsellers: May 20 (Spring Books Edition)

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/19/2009 03:53:00 PM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

We took a bit of a break for TCAF and the debut of the Sequential print edition, so we missed a week of the bestseller list. And who knows, now that the first long weekend of the season has come and gone, the list might go on Summer hiatus.

Anyway, here we go. The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most 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. Sequential readers will be pleased to not that George Sprott, Scott Pilgrim, and Darwyn Cooke (not to mention Gustave Dore, the Secret Wars II Omnibus Edition, and NBM's "Gorgeous and ...Hung?" by Kinky Jimmy) are all included in Amazon.ca's Top 100 comics and graphic novels as I write this.

The Sequential list has two parts, the top 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list. Last week's rankings are in parentheses.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (3) B is for Beer, Tom Robbins (Harper Collins)
3. (-) Fullmetal Alchemist 18, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
4. (4) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (2) Naruto 42, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (5) Naruto 44, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (6) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
8. (8) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (10) Garfield Just Desserts, Jim Davis (Random)
10. (11) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (-) Maus 1, Spiegelman (Knopf)
12. (9) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (-) Shugo Chara! 6, Peach-Pit (Random House)
14. (12) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (16) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (13) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (21) Hobbit, Tolkien et al (Harper Collins)
18. (-) Marvel Encyclopedia (Marvel)
19. (25) Wolverine 1: Prodigal Son, Tortosa/Johnston (Random House)
20. (15) Manga Metamorphosis, Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
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21. (17) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
22. (14) Chibi Vampire 13, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
23. (20) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (28) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
25. (-) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
26. Black Cat 20, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ)
27. Maus II, Spiegelman (Knopf)
28. (-) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
29. 19. (-) Maximum Ride, Vol. 1, James Patterson (Yen)
30. (-) B.O.D.Y., Volume 5, Ao Mimori (VIZ)


Standard explanation: 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: Some new manga volumes.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (13) Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist, Doug Wright (D+Q)
4. (3) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)
5. (4) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (10) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
7. (6) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (19) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
9. (5) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
10. (11) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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11. (7) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
12. (12) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
13. (-) Lillian the Legend, Kerry Byrne (Conundrum)
14. (15) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
15. (-) Kaspar, Diane Obomsawin (D+Q)
16. (22) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
17. (-) Papercut Heart, Ian Sullivan Cant (Conundrum)
18. (26) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
19. (9) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
20. (30) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
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21. (17) Middle Aged Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (20) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q)
23. (25) Shenzhen, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
24. (27) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q)
25. (14) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
26. (18) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
27. (16) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
28. (21) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws 1, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
29. (24) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
30. (-) In Me Own Words/Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)


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Canadian Bestsellers: May 6 (TCAF Edition)

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/06/2009 01:35:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

Just in time for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and the debut of the first print issue of Sequential, it's the weekly edition of the Sequential Bestseller List!

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list. Last week's rankings are in parentheses.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (3) Naruto 42, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) B is for Beer, Tom Robbins (Harper Collins)
4. (5) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (4) Naruto 44, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (7) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
7. (6) Fruits Basket 22, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
8. (10) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (9) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (8) Garfield Just Desserts, Jim Davis (Random)
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11. (14) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (11) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (19) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ
14. (12) Chibi Vampire 13, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
15. (13) Manga Metamorphosis, Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
16. (16) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (22) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (15) Negima! 21, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
19. (-) Maximum Ride, Vol. 1, James Patterson (Yen)
20. (17) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (-) Hobbit, Tolkien et al (Harper Collins)
22. (-) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
23. (24) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
24. (21) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
25. (-) Wolverine 1: Prodigal Son, Tortosa/Johnston (Random House)
26. (-) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
27. (-) The Wallflower 19, Tomoko Hayakawa (Random House)
28. (25) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
29. (20) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. (-) Otomen, Volume 2, Aya Kanno (VIZ)


Standard explanation: 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: That new Wolverine manga has a strong-ish debut. Is it the only movie tie-in?

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
2. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (5) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)
4. (3) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
5. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
6. (6) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
7. (-) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (8) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
9. (7) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
10. (16) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
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11. (11) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
12. (9) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
13. (13) Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist, Doug Wright (D+Q)
14. (19) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (15) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)19503
16. (10) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
17. (12) Middle Aged Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (29) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
19. (14) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (17) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q)
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21. (18) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
22. (20) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
23. (21) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
24. (22) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
25. (23) Shenzhen, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
26. (24) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
27. (26) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q)
28. (27) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
29. (28) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
30. (30) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)

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Canadian Bestsellers: April 29

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/30/2009 05:59:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

We missed last week, but the list is back in full force this week...

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list. Last week's rankings are in parentheses.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (-) B is for Beer, Tom Robbins (Harper Collins)
3. (3) Naruto 42, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (2) Naruto 44, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5 (4) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (5) Fruits Basket 22, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
7. (6) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
8. (-) Garfield Just Desserts, Jim Davis (Random)
9. (7) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (12) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (13) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (-) Chibi Vampire 13, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
13. (10) Manga Metamorphosis, Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
14. (9) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (8) Negima! 21, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
16. (11) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (18) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (22) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
19. (14) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (16) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (-) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
22. (19) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (17) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (15) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
25. (27) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
26. (-) Manga Messiah, Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
27. (21) Rosario+Vampire 6, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
28. (-) Daniel X: Alien Hunter, James Patterson et al (Little, Brown)
29. (20) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. (-) Naruto 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)


Standard explanation: 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.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
2. (1) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
4. (11) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
5. (-) Night School, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)
6. (5) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
7. (27) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (3) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
9. (8) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
10. (4) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
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11. (25) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
12. (-) Middle Aged Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (9) Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist, Doug Wright (D+Q)
14. (13) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (19) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
16. (7) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
17. (26) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q)
18. (14) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
19. (18) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
20. (21) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
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21. (10) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
22. (28) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
23. (-) Shenzhen, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
24. (16) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
25. (20) Witness My Shame, Shary Boyle (Conundrum)
26. (23) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q)
27. (24) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
28. (29) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
29. (30) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
30. the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)


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Canadian Comics Bestsellers: April 16

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/17/2009 02:10:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

Running a little late (again) this week...

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list. Last week's rankings are in parentheses.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (4) Naruto 44, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (8) Naruto 42, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (7) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (2) Fruits Basket 22, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
6. (3) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
7. (6) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (5) Negima! 21, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
9. (9) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (-) Manga Metamorphosis, Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
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11. (13) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (12) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (10) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (11) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (26) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
16. (-) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (14) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (15) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
19. (-) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (-) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (16) Rosario+Vampire 6, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
22. (24) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
23. (17) Killing Joke, Moore/Bolland (DC)
24. (23) Kitchen Princess 9, Natsumi Ando Miyuki Kobayashi (Random House)
25. (18) Bleach 26, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
26. (19) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
27. (20) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
28. (-) NORA 4, Kazunari Kakei (VIZ)
29. (21) Naruto 7, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. (-) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)


Standard explanation: 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: The big puzzler is number 10, the Christian comic Manga Metamorphis. Published last August, it has never been on the list before and makes me doubt the veracity of Bookmanager's system. Did someone just buy 20 copies of this? (The prequel, Manga Messiah, is at #67 or thereabouts, so maybe this is the case.)

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (3) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (30) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
5. (5) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
6. (4) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
7. (6) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
8. (8) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
9. (-) Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist, Doug Wright (D+Q)
10. (-) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
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11. (7) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
12. (10) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
13. (12) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (20) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
15. (-) Kaspar, Diane Obomsawin (D+Q)
16. (17) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
17. (19) In Me Own Words (Bigfoot), Graham Roumieu (Plume)
18. (21) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (23) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
20. (-) Witness My Shame, Shary Boyle (Conundrum)
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21. (9) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
22. (11) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
23. (13) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q)
24. (15) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
25. (14) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
26. (16) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q)
27. (18) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
28. (-) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
29. (22) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
30. (24) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)

Analysis: Pascal Blanchett was interviewed on the same episode of CBC's Q radio program as the now-infamous Billy Bob Thronton rant, which may account for the book suddenly shooting up the charts. A strong debut for the translation of Kaspar and for the Doug Wright collection, my vote of 'book of the year'.

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Canadian Comics Bestsellers: April 9

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/12/2009 07:23:00 PM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

Running a little late (again) this week...

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list. Last week's rankings are in parentheses.

Interested readers might want to check out what Chris Butcher has to say about the problems with the New York Times comics list, which is too responsive to blips caused by books delivered by Diamond, and which I think may have bearing on this list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Fruits Basket 22, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
3. (3) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
4. (-) Naruto 44, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (5) Negima! 21, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
6. (4) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (-) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (-) Naruto 42, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (6) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (12) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (8) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (9) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (7) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (10) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (11) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (14) Rosario+Vampire 6, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
17. (-) Killing Joke, Moore/Bolland (DC)
18. (13) Bleach 26, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
19. (17) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
20. (15) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
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21. (22) Naruto 7, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
22. (16) Dark Tower, Stepen King et al (Marvel)
23. (-) Kitchen Princess 9, Natsumi Ando Miyuki Kobayashi (Random House)
24. (18) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
25. (19) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Yen)
26. (21) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC
27. (-) Daniel X: Alien Hunter, James Patterson (Little, Brown)
28. (28) Skim, Tamaki/Tamaki (Groundwood)
29. (-) Death Note 2, Tsugumi Ohba/Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
30. (-) Naruto 6, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)


Standard explanation: 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: Not much change, with the exception of more Naruto (three new volumes out for Easter).

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (10) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (3) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
5. (4) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
6. (5) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
7. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
8. (7) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
9. (12) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
10. (14) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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11. (19) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
12. (17) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (20) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q)
14. (8) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (23) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
16. (9) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q)
17. (26) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (11) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (13) In Me Own Words (Bigfoot), Graham Roumieu (Plume)
20. (-) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear)
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21. (15) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
22. (18) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
23. (16) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
24. (21) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
25. (22) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
26. (24) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. (28) Pohadky, Colek/Marek (D+Q)
28. (-) Lillian the Legend, Kerry Byrne (Conundrum)
29. (29) Shenzhen, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
30. (19) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)

Analysis: It's interesting to note that between #28 Lilian the Legend and #29 Shenzhen, there are hundreds of non-Canadian comics on the full list. Lillian's sales rank is 56499 while Eric Stanton: The Dominant Wives and Other Stories (Taschen) is 59890.
The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume 2 is 59927 and Canadian publisher Udon's Darkstalkers Graphic File is 61175. Craig Thompson's Blankets is 61378 and Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 is 64626. Nobuyuki Anzai's Flame of Recca, Maggie the Mechanic, The Goon 5, Garth Ennis' The Punisher 2, Superman : Birthright, Hellboy 3, One Piece Vol. 16, Jack of Fables VOL 03, Avatar Volume 7, He Is My Master Vol 3 , and Ai Yori Aoshi all rank higher than the all-Canadian Guy Delisle who comes in at a sales rank of 67123. There are also several hundred more comics between Shenzhen and Pascal Blanchet's Baloney, which has a sales rank of 68000.


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Canadian Comics Bestsellers: April 2

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/05/2009 07:07:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

Running a little late this week...

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Fruits Basket 22, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
3. (3) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
4. (9) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (-) Negima! 21, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
6. (11) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (7) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (5) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (13) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (4) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (6) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (8) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (10) Bleach 26, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
14. (20) Rosario+Vampire 6, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
15. (22) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
16. (-) Dark Tower, Stepen King et al (Marvel)
17. (12) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
18. (19) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
19. (14) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Yen)
20. (26) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (15) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
22. (16) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (-) The Joker, Azzarello et al (DC)
24. (17) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (30) Maus I, Spiegelman (Knopf)
26. (-) The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Vol. 2, Tanigawa/Tsugano (Yen)
27. (18) Watchmen Hardcover, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
28. (-) Skim, Tamaki/Tamaki (Groundwood)
29. (-) Batman: Year One, Miller/Mazzuchelli (DC)
30. (-) Shugo Chara! 5, Peach-Pit (Random House)


Standard explanation: 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: Two Canadian books, three books from Canadian publishers. Oddest (to me) new entry: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya-chan is based on the popular anime, in turn based on a series of light novels.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
4. (3) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
5. (5) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
6. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (11) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
8. (8) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (14) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q)
10. (7) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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11. (15) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
12. (16) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
13. (17) In Me Own Words (Bigfoot), Graham Roumieu (Plume)
14. (9) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (12) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
16. (10) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
17. (13) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (25) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
19. (27) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
20. (18) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q)
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21. (21) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
22. (23) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
23. (22) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
24. (24) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (26) Witness My Shame, Shary Boyle (Conundrum)
26. (28) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
27. (20) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
28. (-) Pohadky, Colek/Marek (D+Q)
29. (30) Shenzhen, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
30. (19) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)

Analysis: It's official, Bryan Lee O'Malley is the new Lynn Johnston of Canada, idol of millions and champion bestseller comic booker. O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series has 5 volumes in the top 30 this week, to Johnston's 3. A year ago, the situation would have been reversed, with Johnston hogging between 5 and 10 spaces, sometimes with volumes of comics dating back to the 1980s. Guy Delisle travelogue trilogy and Jeff Lemire's Essex County books rank just below Johnston, with 3 relatively lower-ranked books in the top 30. The number 30 book, a translated edition of Pascal Blanchet's newest, is less popular than Essential Spider-woman 2 by Michael Fleisher, Chris Claremont, Steve Leialoha, and the great Carmine Infantino, according to BookManager.

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Canadian Bestsellers: March 25

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/25/2009 01:06:00 PM

compiled/edited by B. Munn


The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (-) Fruits Basket 22, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
3. (2) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
4. (3) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (7) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (5) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (9) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (10) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (16) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (4) Bleach 26, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
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11. (6) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (8) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
13. (12) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (11) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Orbit/Yen)
15. (14) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
16. (-) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (13) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (15) Watchmen Hardcover, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
19. (20) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
20. (18) Rosario+Vampire 6, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
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21. (-) Batman: Killing Joke, Moore/Bolland (DC)
22. (-) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
23. (-) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (-) Sandman: Preludes/Nocturnes, Gaiman et al (DC)
25. (19) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
26. (-) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
27. (17) Rosario+Vampire 2, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
28. (23) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
29. (29) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
30. (-) Maus I, Spiegelman (Knopf)


Standard explanation: 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: Future historians will wonder at the sheer mass of Naruto-related pulp that seems to have smothered the population of Canada.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (4) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)4169
4. (3) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)6016
5. (6) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
6. (5) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume) 8608
7. (7) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (12) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)11847
9. (17) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 13310
10. (8) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
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11. (20) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
12. (-) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)15237
13. (9) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)15267
14. (-) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q) 15553
15. (10) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)16019
16. (16) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
17. (-) In Me Own Words (Bigfoot), Graham Roumieu (Plume)
18. (11) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q)
19. (19) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
20. (22) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
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21. (13) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
22. (14) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
23. (15) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
24. (18) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (23) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
26. (21) Witness My Shame, Shary Boyle (Conundrum)
27. (24) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
28. (26) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
29. (27) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (28) Shenzhen, Guy Delisle (D+Q)


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Canadian Bestsellers: March 18 (Watchmen Edition, Part II)

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/19/2009 12:40:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

Last week we linked to a few other lists that use the numbers from Booknet. Most of these lists ranked the Watchmen graphic novel differently (or not at all). This week, Quill and Quire weighs in with their own BookNet-sourced list, with Watchmen at #4. At the time of this writing, Watchmen is #8 on Amazon.ca At Chapters/Indigo, it is #7 overall. On the BookManager list, Watchmen is #10 overall. And now:

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (-) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
3. (2) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (-) Bleach 26, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
5. (4) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (23) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (7) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (15) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
9. (6) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (11) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (-) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Orbit/Yen)
12. (20) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (-) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (8) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
15. (17) Watchmen Hardcover, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
16. (12) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (-) Rosario+Vampire 2, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
18. (9) Rosario+Vampire 6, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
19. (14) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (24) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
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21. (-) Rosario+Vampire 1, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
22. (10) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
23. (30) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
24. (-) Garfield Spills the Beans, Davis (Random House)
25. (-) Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, Groening et al (Harper Collins)
26. (-) Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
27. (-) Naruto 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
28. (16) Hobbit GN, Tolkien et al (Harper Collins)
29. (13) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
30. (19) Maus II, Spiegelman (Knopf)


Standard explanation: 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: Going into March Break, Narutomania continues.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero titles, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
2. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (2) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
4. (5) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
5. (8) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (11) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
7. (4) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (6) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
9. (7) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (10) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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11. (-) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q)
12. (9) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
13. (12) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
14. (20) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
15. (21) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
16. (22) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
17. (27) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
18. (28) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
19. (13) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
20. (15) Pyonyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
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21. (16) Witness My Shame, Shary Boyle (Conundrum)
22. (17) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
23. (18) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
24. (23) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
25. (24) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
26. (25) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
27. (26) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. (-) Shenzhen, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
29. (14) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
30. (-) Nil, James Turner (Slave Labor)

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Canadian Bestsellers: March 11 (Watchmen Edition)

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/11/2009 01:47:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

We skipped a week with the Sequential Bestseller List but are back with a vengeance to chronicle Watchmen mania. For the record, although Sequential uses Bookmanager figures, most Canadian news sources use numbers provided by the more-comprehensive BookNet. Both the Globe and Mail and National Post use these numbers. The most recent Post list has the Watchmen at #9, while the Globe doesn't list it at all. On the Chapters-Indigo list, Watchmen is currently at #15. On Amazon.ca, Watchmen ranks at #2, after Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes. On the BookManager list, Watchmen is #13 overall and #3 in paperback fiction. And now:

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (-) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
3. (2) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (3) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (-) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
6. (4) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (5) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (25) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
9. (-) Rosario+Vampire 6, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
10. (10) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
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11. (-) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (-) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (21) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
14. (9) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (-) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
16. (-) Hobbit GN, Tolkien et al (Harper Collins)
17. (-) Watchmen Hardcover, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
18. (19) Daniel X Alien Hunter, Patterson (Little Brown)
19. (20) Maus II, Spiegelman (Knopf)
20. (-) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (11) Rosario+Vampire 5, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
22. (-) Black Cat 19, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ)
23. (-) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (6) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
25. (-) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
26. (7) Tsubasa 20: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
27. (-) The Joker (Hardcover), Brian Azzarello et al (DC)
28. (-) Sardine in Outer Space, Joann Sfar (Holt)
29. (28) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
30. (-) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)


Standard explanation: 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: Canada remains one nation, under Naruto, but Alan Moore has a few books on the list, and the Canadian-published, Queen of U.S. comics Lynda Barry returns to the list.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero titles, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
2. (5) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
3. (4) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (3) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (2) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
6. (7) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
7. (10) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
9. (-) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
10. (8) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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11. (11) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
12. (12) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
13. (13) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
14. (18) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
15. (-) Pyonyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
16. (-) Witness My Shame, Shary Boyle (Conundrum)
17. (15) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
18. (25) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
19. (-) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fanta)
20. (9) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
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21. (20) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
22. (23) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
23. (24) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
24. (-) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (-) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
26. (22) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. (17) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
28. (19) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (21) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
30. (30) Paul Has a Summer Job, Rabagliati (D+Q)


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Canadian Bestsellers: February 26

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/26/2009 02:19:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (5) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (4) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (16) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
7. (8) Tsubasa 20: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
8. (-) Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Book I, Gaiman (DC)
9. (7) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (6) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
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11. (11) Rosario+Vampire 5, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
12. (14) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
13. (12) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Yen)
14. (-) Death Note 5, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
15. (10) Batman Killing Joke, Moore/Bolland (DC)
16. (13) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (9) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
18. (-) Sandman II: The Doll's House, Gaiman (DC)
19. (-) Daniel X Alien Hunter, Patterson (Little Brown)
20. (23) Maus II, Spiegelman (Knopf)
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21. (24) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
22. (-) Death Note 3, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
23. (-) Batman RIP, Tony Daniel et al (DC)
24. (15) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (17) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
26. (-) Walking Dead 9, Kirkman et al (Image)
27. (21) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
28. (-) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
29. (-) Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. (28) Dark Tower, King et al (Marvel)


Standard explanation: 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: 9 Narutos and 2 Gaiman (an effect of the Coraline film and Gaiman's new novel?).

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero titles, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
2. (-) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
3. (3) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
5. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
6. (7) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
7. (5) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
8. (9) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (10) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
10. (6) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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11. (8) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
12. (11) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
13. (14) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
14. (18) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (20) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
16. (22) In Me Own Words: Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
17. (23) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
18. (26) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
19. (12) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (13) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
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21. (17) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
22. (19) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (16) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
24. (21) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
25. (-) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
26. (25) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. (27) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
28. (-) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
29. (30) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (-) Paul Has a Summer Job, Rabagliati (D+Q)

4 out of the 5 Scott Pilgrim volumes are in the top 30, including the newest volume which sits at #2 in its first week. Still, Lynn Johnston has five in the top 30...
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Canadian Bestsellers: Feb 19

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/18/2009 01:47:00 AM

compiled/edited by B. Munn

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (9) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (11) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (10) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
7. (4) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (5) Tsubasa 20: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
9. (6) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
10. (-) Batman Killing Joke, Moore/Bolland (DC)
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11. (16) Rosario+Vampire 5, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
12. (8) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Yen)
13. (7) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (22) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
15. (24) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (29) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
17. (-) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
18. (13) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
19. (14) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
20. (15) Otomen 1, Aya Kanno (VIZ)
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21. (20) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
22. (12) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
23. (-) Maus II, Spiegelman (Knopf)
24. (-) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
25. (-) Death Note 12, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
26. (21) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
27. (-) Tsubasa 19: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
28. (-) Dark Tower, King et al (Marvel)
29. (17) Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
30. (-) B.O.D.Y. 4, Ao Mimori (VIZ)



Standard explanation: 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: Manga, manga, manga! Lots of movement due to new volumes of translated Japanese comics. And for the first time since we've been collating these lists, Lynn Johnston is bumped from the top 30 (her Home Sweat Home collection falls from 30 to 86)!

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero titles, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
2. (4) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (2) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
5. (7) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
6. (6) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. (5) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
8. (24) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
9. (22) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
10. (9) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
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11. (11) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
12. (12) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (15) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
14. (16) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
15. (20) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
16. (8) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
17. (25) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
18. (-) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (27) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (10) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
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21. (13) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
22. (17) In Me Own Words: Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
23. (18) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
24. (19) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (23) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
26. (28) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
27. (30) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
28. (-) Strange and Stranger, Nlake Bell (Fanta)
29. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
30. (-) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

No new faces this week but considerable shuffling.

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Canadian Bestsellers: Feb 12

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/12/2009 03:10:00 AM

edited by B. Munn

**We have some new competition in the Bestseller List game. This past weekend, I noticed for the first time that the Globe and Mail is posting the occasional top 10 Manga and Graphic Novel List, based on Booknet numbers. The list is similar to the Bookmanager list, but with presumably more numbers backing it up.**

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (4) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (5) Tsubasa 20: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
6. (6) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
7. (19) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (9) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Yen)
9. (-) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (10) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
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11. (-) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (8) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
13. (7) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
14. (11) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
15. (-) Otomen 1, Aya Kanno (VIZ)
16. (16) Rosario+Vampire 5, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
17. (-) Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
18. (-) Papillon 2, Miwa Ueda (Random House)
19. (18) Negima! 20, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
20. (23) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (-) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
22. (12) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
23. (26) The Walking Dead 9, Robert Kirkman et al (Image)
24. (14) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (15) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
26. (27) Death Note 3, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
27. (20) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
28. (22) Death Note 2, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
29. (17) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
30. (13) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)


Standard explanation: 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: The Naruto surge continues, with several other newly published manga debuting high on the list.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero titles, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
2. (2) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
4. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
5. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. (19) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
8. (7) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
9. (8) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
10. (11) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
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11. (12) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
12. (-) Family Business, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (17) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
14. (10) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
15. (21) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
16. (-) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
17. (13) In Me Own Words: Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
18. (14) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (15) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (16) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
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21. (18) Hall Of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fanta)
22. (20) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
23. (22) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (9) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
25. (23) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
26. (24) Lillian the Legend, Kerry Byrne (Conundrum)
27. (25) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. (26) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
29. (27) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (28) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)


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Weekly Bestsellers: February 4

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/05/2009 12:01:00 AM

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (-) Naruto 34, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (-) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (2) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (-) Tsubasa 20: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
6. (3) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
7. (4) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
8. (7) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
9. (6) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Yen)
10. (8) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
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11. (13) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
12. (15) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
13. (5) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (12) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (9) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
16. (-) Rosario+Vampire 5, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
17. (-) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! 2, Ihara Shigekatsu (VIZ)
18. (17) Negima! 20, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
19. (10) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (14) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (11) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
22. (30) Death Note 2, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
23. (21) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (16) Che, Spain (Verso)
25. (-) Vampire Knight 4, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
26. (-) The Walking Dead 9, Robert Kirkman et al (Image)
27. (-) Death Note 3, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
28. (-) Death Note 5, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
29. (-) Maus II, Spiegelman (Knopf)
30. (19) Black Cat 18, Yabuki Kentaro (VIZ)


Standard explanation: 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: A ton of new manga titles, including the 500-pound gorilla Naruto.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everything from Jack Kirby's The Demon to Jim Woodring's Complete Frank battle for supremacy, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200 (and into the top 30). This is the battleground where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
2. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
5. (4) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (5) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
7. (17) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
8. (8) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
9. (7) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
10. (-) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
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11. (10) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
12. (13) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
13. (23) In Me Own Words: Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
14. (-) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (-) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (-) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
17. (30) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
18. (-) Hall Of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fanta)
19. (9) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
20. (11) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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21. (12) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
22. (14) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (15) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
24. (-) Lillian the Legend, Kerry Byrne (Conundrum)
25. (20) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
26. (19) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
27. (21) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. (22) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
29. (24) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
30. (-) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)

After a long time, Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki knocks Lynn Johnston off the #1 spot. A strong debut for Lillian the Legend --the story of a woman who walks across Canada-- at #24.

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Weekly Bestsellers: January 28

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/29/2009 02:42:00 AM

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (4) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
5. (6) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (5) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Yen)
7. (7) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
8. (8) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
9. (10) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
10. (11) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (9) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
12. (18) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (12) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
14. (15) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (13) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
16. (14) Che, Spain (Verso)
17. (17) Negima! 20, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
18. (16) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
19. (21) Black Cat 18, Yabuki Kentaro (VIZ)
20. (-) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
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21. (28) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
22. (-) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
23. (25) Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
24. (-) Daniel X: Alien Hunter, James Patterson et al (Little, Brown)
25. (27) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
26. (29) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
27. (26) DC Comics Encyclopedia, Rbt Greenburger (DK)
28. (27) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (28) Death Note 13, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
30. (-) Death Note 2, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)


Standard explanation: 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: No first-time titles.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everything from Jack Kirby's The Demon to Jim Woodring's Complete Frank battle for supremacy, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200 (and into the top 30). This is the battleground where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (4) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (3) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (5) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (7) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
8. (8) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
9. (9) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
10. (10) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
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11. (11) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
12. (13) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
13. (12) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
14. (14) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (15) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
16. (16) Striking a Cord, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (17) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (22) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (19) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
20. (20) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. (21) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (22) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
23. (-) In Me Own Words: Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
24. (23) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
25. (24) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fantagraphics)
26. (25) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
27. (26) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. (27) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (28) It's the Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (20) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)



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Weekly Bestsellers: January 21

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/22/2009 02:45:00 AM

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (4) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
5. (-) Maximum Ride 1, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Yen)
6. (5) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. (6) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
8. (12) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
9. (8) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
10. (7) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
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11. (10) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (16) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
13. (13) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
14. (11) Che, Spain (Verso)
15. (18) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (9) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
17. (19) Negima! 20, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
18. (-) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
19. (-) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fitzgerald/DeFillippis (Quirk)
20. (-) Chibi Vampire 12, Kagesaki Yuna (Tokyopop)
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21. (22) Black Cat 18, Yabuki Kentaro (VIZ)
22. (-) Chibi Vampire 11, Kagesaki Yuna (Tokyopop)
23. (-) American Born Chinese, Gene Yang (First Second)
24. (-) Asterix and the Roman Agent, Uderzo (Orion)
25. (-) Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
26. (14) DC Comics Encyclopedia, Rbt Greenburger (DK)
27. (20) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
28. (-) Death Note 13, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
27. (15) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. (17) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
29. (27) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
30. (21) Simpsons/Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)


Standard explanation: 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: Based on the popular fantasy prose novels, Maximum Ride the OEL manga features a tribe of genetically-engineered angel teenagers trying to save the world debuts at #5.
In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everything from Jack Kirby's The Demon to Jim Woodring's Complete Frank battle for supremacy, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200 (and into the top 30). This is the battleground where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
5. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (15) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
8. (11) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
9. (7) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
10. (12) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
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11. (21) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
12. (-) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belleveau (Condundrum)
13. (27) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
14. (28) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (12) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
16. (-) Striking a Cord, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (17) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (22) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (-) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
20. (13) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. (14) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (16) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
23. (18) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
24. (20) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fantagraphics)
25. (19) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
26. (24) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. (26) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. (29) It's the Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (30) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
30. (-) Hall of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics)


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Weekly Bestsellers: January 14

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/16/2009 12:01:00 AM

The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (4) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
5. (5) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (6) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
7. (7) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
8. (8) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
9. (24) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
10. (9) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (10) Che, Spain (Verso)
12. (17) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
13. (11) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
14. (12) DC Comics Encyclopedia, Rbt Greenburger (DK)
15. (13) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (14) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
17. (15) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (16) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
19. (20) Negima! 20, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
20. (18) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
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21. (19) Simpsons/Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
22. (-) Black Cat 18, Yabuki Kentaro (VIZ)
23. (21) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
24. (23) Marvel Encyclopedia, Tom Defalco (DK)
25. (22) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
26. (25) Daniel X Alien Hunter, Patterson et al (Little, Brown)
27. (26) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
28. (-) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
29. (27) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
30. (-) Shugo Chara! 5, Peach-Pit (Random House)



Standard explanation: 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: 2 new volums of popular manga series are released: Shuga Chara! continues the adventures of the kids' comic about a alienated little girl with magical guardians; Black Cat continues the adventures of the titular bounty hunter with a heart of gold.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everything from Jack Kirby's The Demon to Jason's The Living and the Dead battle for supremacy, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200 (and into the top 30). This is the battleground where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
5. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (7) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
8. (8) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
9. (12) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
10. (15) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
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11. (10) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
12. (9) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
13. (16) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (22) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (11) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
16. (25) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
17. (14) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (17) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
19. (18) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
20. (19) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fantagraphics)
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21. (20) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
22. (21) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
23. (-) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
24. (23) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (24) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
26. (26) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. (27) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
28. (28) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (30) It's the Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (-) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)

Until I read the interview with Brian K. Vaughan in the most recent Comics Journal, I was disinclined to include Y: The Last Man in our All-Canadian List. While the book was conceived and written by Vaughan, the much-lauded art for the book is by Canadian Pia Guerra, who Vaughan credits with several plot points and story ideas, not to mention the obvious character designs and actual cartooning of the book. Traditionally, for the purposes of this list, my definition of "Canadian" means "created by a Canadian." I simply ask myself, "Would this book exist in some form without the involvement of a creator from the Frozen North?" The answer, especially for collaborative works, and especially for works published by U.S. publishers like Marvel and Warners/DC/Vertigo, is usually yes. Thus, Pride of Baghdad, Y, and Nextwave: Agents of HATE don't make the cut, whereas books by Darwyn Cooke, who is more often than not writer/artist these days, do. That being said, if Y: The Last Man were actually considered for this list, volume 2 would currently sit at #7. Other volumes would occupy several more spaces.

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Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga, U.S. superhero franchises

Weekly Bestsellers: January 7

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/07/2009 06:00:00 AM

Our weekly snapshot of the comics retail scene, covering New Year's week.

The Top 30 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (4) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
5. (5) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (6) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
7. (7) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
8. (8) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
9. (8) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (14) Che, Spain (Verso)
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11. (12) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
12. (10) DC Comics Encyclopedia, Rbt Greenburger (DK)
13. (11) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (17) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
15. (13) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (16) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (15) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
18. (-) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
19. (23) Simpsons/Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
20. (28) Negima! 20, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
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21. (18) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
22. (20) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
23. (19) Marvel Encyclopedia, Tom Defalco (DK)
24. (21) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
25. (25) Daniel X Alien Hunter, Patterson et al (Little, Brown)
26. (22) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
27. (24) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
28. (26) Big Brilliant Book Of Bart, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
29. (27) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
30. (29) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)


Standard explanation: 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: Nothing new this week, just a shuffling of the deck.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Frank Miller to JRR Tolkien battle for supremacy, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200 (and into the top 30). This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (4) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (8) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
8. (7) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
9. (11) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
10. (15) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
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11. (9) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
12. (12) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
13. (10) In Me Own Words/Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
14. (12) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
15. (14) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
16. (17) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (18) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
18. (-) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (23) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fantagraphics)
20. (24) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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21. (-) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
22. (29) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (-) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (16) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
25. (20) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
26. (19) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. (21) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
28. (25) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (27) Zombies Calling, Faith Erin Hicks (Slave Labor)
30. (-) It's the Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

Not much new here. Lynn Johnston is still the Queen of Canada. The Spirit may have got a bump from the Frank Miller movie. And I'm beginning to suspect that the D+Q bookstore may be a Bookmanager client.

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Weekly Bestsellers: December 31

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/01/2009 05:00:00 AM

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One more kick at the can for 2008. I'm pretty sure these lists represent sales through Dec. 27, so next week's list will be the "last" list of 2008 even though it will be dated 2009.

The Top 30 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (3) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (5) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
5. (4) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (6) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
7. (7) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
8. (12) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
9. (8) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (11) DC Comics Encyclopedia, Rbt Greenburger (DK)
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11. (24) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (9) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
13. (18) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (-) Che, Spain (Verso)
15. (15) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
16. (10) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (13) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
18. (-) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
19. (29) Marvel Encyclopedia, Tom Defalco (DK)
20. (14) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
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21. (19) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
22. (21) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
23. (17) Simpsons Comics Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
24. (-) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
25. (-) Daniel X Alien Hunter, Patterson et al (Little, Brown)
26. (-) Big Brilliant Book Of Bart, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
27. (-) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
28. (16) Negima! 20, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
29. (-) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
30. (-) The Potpourrific Great Big Grab Bag of Get Fuzzy, Darby Conley (Andrews McMeel)


Standard explanation: 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: The just-released graphic novel adaption of thriller writer James Patterson's popular Daniel X kids series makes a strong showing. As well, there are five books by Canadian creators but only 2 books from a Canadian publisher.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Frank Miller to JRR Tolkien battle for supremacy, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200 (and into the top 30). This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (4) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (-) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
8. (8) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
9. (7) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
10. (-) In Me Own Words/Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
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11. (22) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
12. (9) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
13. (12) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
14. (11) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
15. (15) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
16. (17) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
17. (10) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (19) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
19. (13) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (24) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
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21. (16) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
22. (14) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
23. (-) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fantagraphics)
24. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
25. (-) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
26. (20) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. (21) Zombies Calling, Faith Erin Hicks (Slave Labor)
28. (23) It's the Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (25) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (26) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)

High-ranking books that don't qualify as sufficiently Canadian (but would otherwise be in the Top 30 Canadian): Y The Last Man, the KRAZY! catalog, JSA Volume 1, and many others. Something else that I find utterly fascinating: POWR MSTRS #2 outsold the bottom 13 (ie, #s 18-30) Canadian books this week. It also outsold Garfield Dishes it Out, Y: The Last Man Vol 3, The Hardy Boys Sea You Sea Me, Aya, Chobits, Gary Larson's Last Chapter and Worse, Bleach Vol 9, Jimmy Corrigan, Bleach Vol 17, Inuyasha, The Evil Dead, Love and Rockets: New Stories Vol 1 and thousands of other comics. Congrats to C.F. and publisher Dan Nadel.

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Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, international, manga, U.S. superhero franchises

Weekly Bestsellers: December 24

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/27/2008 05:00:00 AM

Perhaps the last of these lists for the year, featuring the bestselling comics-related books from the week before Christmas.

The Top 30 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (-) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (5) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (6) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (8) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
6. (3) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
7. (10) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
8. (4) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (7) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
10. (14) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (-) DC Comics Encyclopedia, Rbt Greenburger (DK)
12. (-) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
13. (18) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
14. (11) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
15. (12) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
16. (-) Negima! 20, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
17. (28) Simpsons Comics Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
18. (21) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
19. (9) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
20. (-) Naruto 30, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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21. (20) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
22. (-) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ)
23. (16) Dilbert: This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value, Adams (Andrews McMeel)
24. (-) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (-) Maus 1, Spiegelman (Knopf)
26. (-) The Joker (Hardcover), Azzarello/Bermejo (DC)
27. (-) The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home, King et al (Marvel)
28. (25) Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 19, Clamp (Random House)
29. (-) Marvel Encyclopedia, Tom Defalco (DK)
30. (-) Heroes, Various (DC)

Standard explanation: 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: The return of some of the stronger sellers of the past year, just in time for the holiday gift-giving season. The only "new" book on the list is the 20th volume in the Negima translated manga series.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Chris Onstad to Mort Todd to Edward Gorey battle for supremacy, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200 (and into the top 30). This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (4) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (15) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
8. (7) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
9. (8) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
10. (10) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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11. (30) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
12. (14) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
13. (16) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (9) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (-) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
16. (-) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
17. (12) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (17) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
19. (21) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
20. (-) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. (-) Zombies Calling, Faith Erin Hicks (Slave Labor)
22. (19) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
23. (11) It's the Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (-) Batman: Ego and other tales, Darwyn Cooke/Paul Grist (DC)
25. (13) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
26. (18) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
27. (20) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. (22) Graduation, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (-) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
30. (24) Hall of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics)

Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga, publishing, U.S. superhero franchises

Weekly Bestsellers: December 17

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/18/2008 01:00:00 PM

The Top 30 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (-) Naruto 33, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (2) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
4. (4) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (3) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
6. (8) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. (5) Bleach 25, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
8. (6) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
9. (-) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
10. (21) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
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11. (18) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
12. (15) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
13. (-) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (7) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (16) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
16. (29) Dilbert: This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value, Adams (Andrews McMeel)
17. (12) Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso)
18. (13) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
19. (-) Vampire Knight 4, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
20. (9) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
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21. (24) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
22. (23) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
23. (-) Rosario+Vampire, Volume 4, Akihisa Ikeda, (VIZ)
24. (-) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
25. (10) Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 19, Clamp (Random House)
26. (-) Asterix/Olmpic Games, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
27. (-) Death Note 11, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
28. (11) Simpsons Comics Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
29. (-) Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, Gaiman et al (DC)
30. (28) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)

Standard explanation: 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: Lots of activity the further down the list we go, barring a new Naruto volume or two. More (holiday gift) perennial faves like Asterix start taking up more space, and new annual collections of popular strip and cartoon show comics (Dilbert) start showing up on more people's radar.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Chris Onstad to Mort Todd to Edward Gorey battle for supremacy, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200 (and into the top 30). This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (4) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
5. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (7) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
8. (-) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
9. (16) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
10. (20) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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11. (-) It's the Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (24) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
13. (9) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (12) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
15. (13) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
16. (17) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (18) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
18. (19) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
19. (9) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
20. (21) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. (-) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
22. (-) Graduation, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (22) Rex Libris: I, Librarian, James Turner (Slave Labor Graphics)
24. (10) Hall of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics)
25. (11) The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
26. (14) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fanta)
27. (15) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
28. (-) Portfoolio 22, Guy Badeuax, ed (McArthur)
29. (-) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
30. (26) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)

The top 7 remain solid but lots of movement for this intense shopping season, despite the recession.

Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga

Weekly Bestsellers: December 10

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/11/2008 03:00:00 PM

The Top 30 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
3. (4) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (3) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (-) Bleach 24, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
6. (10) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
7. (6) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (7) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
9. (23) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
10. (9) Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 19, Clamp (Random House)
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11. (8) Simpsons Comics Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
12. (11) Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso)
13. (27) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
14. (-) Bionicle 1, Elliott/Farshtey (St. Martin's)
15. (15) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
16. (12) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
17. (13) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ)
18. (19) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
19. (25) Bionicle 2: Challenge of the Rahkshi! Elliott/Farshtey (St. Martin's)
20. (-) Marvel Encyclopedia (DK)
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21. (14) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
22. (-) Daniel X Alien Hunter, Patterson/Gout/Lyngeled (Little, Brown)
23. (30) Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
24. (16) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (-) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
26. (-) Maus 1, Spiegelman (Knopf)
27. (20) The Joker (Hardcover), Azzarello/Bermejo (DC)
28. (-) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
29. (-) Dilbert: This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value, Adams (Andrews McMeel)
30. (-) Red: The Heroic Rescue, Ted Dekker (Thomas Nelson)


Standard explanation: 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: More perennial faves like Asterix start taking up more space, and new annual collections of popular strip and cartoon show comics (Dilbert) start showing up on more people's radar.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Lynda Barry to Wolverine 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 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
5. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (6) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (-) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)
8. (33) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
9. (8) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
9. (7) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (14) Hall of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics)
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11. (15) The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
12. (18) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
13. (19) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
14. (22) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fanta)
15. (21) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
16. (9) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
17. (30) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (-) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
19. (10) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
20. (13) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. (12) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel
22. (25) Rex Libris: I, Librarian, James Turner (Slave Labor Graphics)
23. (26) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (28) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
25. (29) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker ed (Firefly)
26. (17) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
27. (-) Pohadky, Colek (D+Q)
28. (-) 363 Days, Julie Doucet (D+Q)
29. (-) There Goes My Baby, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
30. (-) Witness My Shame, Shary Boyle (Conundrum)

Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels

Weekly Bestsellers: December 4

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/04/2008 01:00:00 PM

The Top 30 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
3. (3) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (6) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
5. (-) Bleach 24, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
6. (5) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (6) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (24) Simpsons Comics Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
9. (12) Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 19, Clamp (Random House)
10. (7) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
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11. (11) Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso)
12. (19) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
13. (13) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ)
14. (9) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
15. (8) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
16. (-) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (-) Asterix/Falling Sky, Uderzo (Orion)
18. (10) Chibi Vampire 11, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
19. (27) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
20. (23) The Joker (Hardcover), Azzarello/Bermejo (DC)
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21. (17) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
22. (14) Fullmetal Alchemist 17, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
23. (-) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
24. (-) The Potpourrific Great Big Grab Bag of Get Fuzzy, Darby Conley (Andrews McMeel)
25. (-) Bionicle 2: Challenge of the Rahkshi! Elliott/Farshtey (St. Martin's)
26. (-) Death Note 4, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
27. (15) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
28. (-) Asterix in Britain, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
29. (-) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. (18) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)

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, the latest Bleach installment debuts at #5, perennial faves like Asterix start taking up more space, and new annual collections of popular strip and cartoon show comics (The Simpsons) start showing up on more people's radar.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Maus (#46) to Lynda Barry (#50) to Moomin (#150) 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 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (6) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
5. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
7. (9) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (7) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
9. (8) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
10. (10) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
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11. (11) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
12. (-) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (-) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (-) Hall of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics)
15. (26) The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
16. (27) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
17. (12) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
18. (13) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
19. (14) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
20. (16) Emiko Superstar, Mariko Tamaki/Steve Rolston (DC/Minx)
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21. (15) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
22. (-) Strange and Stranger, Blake Bell (Fanta)
24. (17) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
25. (18) Rex Libris: I, Librarian, James Turner (Slave Labor Graphics)
26. (19) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. (20) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
28. (21) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
29. (22) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker ed (Firefly)
30. (23) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

Not seen: Drop-In by Dave Lapp (Conundrum) debuts at #33 on the Canadian list. As well, I haven't been including KRAZY! on this list. It's the book of the exhibit from the Vancouver Art Gallery (edited by Bruce Grenville, published by Douglas & McIntyre) and would rank somewhere around #7 on the all-Canadian list (#205 overall) if it wasn't essentially an art book (or, at best, an international anthology with some essays). The book's overall sales rank puts it just above How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.

Labels: bestsellers, British Columbia, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, international, Vancouver

Weekly Bestsellers: November 26

:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/27/2008 12:42:00 AM

The Top 30 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list.

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. (2) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
3. (3) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (6) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
5. (5) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (4) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. (30) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)
8. (11) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
9. (7) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
10. (-) Chibi Vampire 11, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
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11. (14) Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso)
12. (-) Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 19, Clamp (Random House)
13. (16) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ)
14. (8) Fullmetal Alchemist 17, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
15. (13) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
16. (9) It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Charles M Schulz (Perseus)
17. (27) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
18. (23) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
19. (-) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
20. (10) Bleach 24, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
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21. (29) Naruto 30, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
22. (12) Black Cat 17, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ)
23. (19) The Joker (Hardcover), Azzarello/Bermejo (DC)
24. (-) Simpsons Comics Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
25. (-) Scientific Progress Goes Boink, Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
26. (-) Death Note 13, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
27. (17) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
28. (-) Marvel Encyclopedia, wallace/Brevoort (DK)
29. (18) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
30. (-) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)

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, Louis Riel is bumped down to #40 overall by Asterix, Lynda Barry, Stephen King, and some manga.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Popeye (#164) to Bat Manga! (#200) 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 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
5. (6) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (5) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
7. (10) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
8. (7) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (27) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (8) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
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11. (9) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
12. (11) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
13. (12) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
14. (14) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
15. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
16. (17) Emiko Superstar, Mariko Tamaki/Steve Rolston (DC/Minx)
17. (13) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
18. (15) Rex Libris: I, Librarian, James Turner (Slave Labor Graphics)
19. (16) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (18) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
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21. (19) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
22. (20) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker ed (Firefly)
23. (21) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (22) the great hopeful someday, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum Press)
25. (23) The New Frontier 2, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
26. (24) The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
27. (25) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
28. (26) She's Turning into One of Them, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (-) Ojingogo, Matt Forthythe (D+Q)
30. (-) Pohadky, Colek (D+Q)

You read it here first: For Better or For Worse is the Naruto of Canada.

Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels

Weekly Bestsellers

:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/20/2008 01:38:00 AM

The Top 30 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 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list (well, 2 weeks ago...).

Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop)
3. Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
7. Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
8. Fullmetal Alchemist 17, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
9. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Charles M Schulz (Perseus)
10. Bleach 24, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
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11. Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
12. Black Cat 17, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ)
13. Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
14. Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso)
15. Asterix and the Falling Sky, Albert Uderzo (Orion)
16. Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ)
17. 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House)
18. Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
19. The Joker (Hardcover), Azzarello/Bermejo (DC)
20. The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, Butcher/Syaf (Random House)
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21. The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home, King et al (Marvel)
22. Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
23. Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
24. Bionicle 3: City of Legends, Elliott/Farshtey (St. Martin's Press)
25. Chibi Vampire 1, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
26. Rosario+Vampire 1, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
27. Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
28. Cartoons From The New Yorker: 2009 Day-to-Day Calendar (Andrews McMeel)
29. Naruto 30, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK)

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, Skim benefits from the Governor General's bump --moving from somewhere below 30 to #11.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Tite Kubo to Lynda Barry 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 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
5. Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
9. Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
10. It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
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11. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
12. Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
13. Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
14. The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
15. Rex Libris: I, Librarian, James Turner (Slave Labor Graphics)
16. Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. Emiko Superstar, Mariko Tamako Steve Rolston (DC/Minx)
18. Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
19. Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
20. Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker ed (Firefly)
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21. Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. the great hopeful someday, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum Press)
23. The New Frontier 2, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
24. The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
25. Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
26. She's Turning into One of Them, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
27. Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
28. White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
29. I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
30. Hall of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics)

The first appearance of Ray Fenwick on the list, who has recently been featured in the Weekend Post.

Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: November 6

:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/06/2008 02:13:00 AM

**Note: This post marks the return of the Sequential Bestseller lists after an absence of 6 months. No promises, but I hope this can become a weekly event again, although when you compare the list below with the list for April 17, you may notice that not much has really changed --a handful of manga series continue to dominate the charts. You may also note that there haven't been that many new Canadian titles published in the intervening months.**

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.

Top 40 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
2. Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown , Schulz (Perseus)
4. Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins)
6. Fullmetal Alchemist 17, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
7. Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House)
8. Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
9. Bleach 24, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
10. The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, Butcher/Syaf (Random House)
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11. Naruto 30, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home, King et al (Marvel)
13. Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
14. Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
15. Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
16. Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ)
17. What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q)
18. Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ)
19. Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso)
20. Vampire Knight 4, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
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21. Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon)
22. Bionicle: Challenge of the Rahkshi, Elliott/Farshtey (St. Martin's)
23. Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
25. DC Comics Encyclopedia Updated, Greenburger et al (DK)
26. Ouran High School Host Club 11, Bisco Hatori (VIZ)
27. Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
28. Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. One Piece 19, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
30. Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
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31. Marvel Chronicle, DeFaco et al (DK)
32. Rosario+Vampire 1, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
33. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Miller et al (DC)
34. Kitchen Princess 8, Ando/Kobayashi (Random House)
35. Batman: Year One, Miller/Mazzucchelli (DC)
36. Get Fuzzy: Take Our Cat, Please, Darby Conley (Andrews McMeel)
37. Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
38. Cartoons From The New Yorker: 2009 Calendar (Andrews McMeel)
39. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Ito/Tsugano/Tanigawa (Yen)
40. Negima! 19, Akamatsu/Yoshida/Hiroe (Random House)


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.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from David Heatley to Oor Willie 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 30 comes from:

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30
from BookManager

1. Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. Big Foot 2, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
3. Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
5. The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
6. Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. Emiko Superstar, Mariko Tamako Steve Rolston (DC/Minx)
8. Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
9. Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
10. FBOFW 2009 Calendar, Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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11. the great hopeful someday, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum Press)
12. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
13. Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
14. The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx)
15. Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
16. The New Frontier 2, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
17. The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
18. Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
19. Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. Graduation: A Time For Change, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
23. The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. She's Turning into One of Them, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
26. It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
27. In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Manic)
28. Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
29. I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
30. White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)

Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: April 17

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/17/2008 02:20:00 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. 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.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Naruto 28, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
2. (2) Fruits Basket 19, Natsuki Takay (Tokyopop)
3. (3) Vampire Knight 4, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
4. (4) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (13) Death Note 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
6. (5) Naruto 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
7. (8) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
8. (7) Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks et al (Random House)
9. (14) Death Note 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
10. (9) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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11. (10) Death Note 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
12. (12) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (6) Fullmetal Alchemist 16, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
14. (47) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
15. (28) Death Note 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
16. (11) Negima! 17: Magister Negi Magi, Toshifumi/Hiroe (Random House)
17. (26) Naruto 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (17) Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
19. (-) Death Note 5, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
20. (27) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
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21. (-) Simpsons Comics Dollars to Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins)
22. (16) Naruto 9, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (35) Naruto 6, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (-) Death Note 12, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
25. (19) Bleach 2, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
26. (23) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
27. (42) Death Note 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
28. (22) Naruto 10, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
29. (20) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
30. (15) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
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31. (-) Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins)
32. (41) Fairy Tail 1, Hiro Mashima (Random House)
33. (40) Death Note 13, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
34. (31) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
35. (-) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
36. (21) Persepolis 1, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
37. (25) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
38. (18) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
39. (-) Fullmetal Alchemist 1, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
40. (-) Fullmetal Alchemist 2, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
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41. (37) High School Debut 2, Kazune Kawahara (VIZ)
42. (-) Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
43. (-) People's History Of American Empire, Zinn/Konopacki/Buhle (Henry Holt)
44. (-) Naruto 15, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
45. (43) Naruto 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
46. (29) One Piece 17, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
47. (24) Bleach 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
48. (30) Naruto 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
49. (46) Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
50. (-) Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare), Ken Hoshine (Spark)

36 of the 50 are translated Japanese manga. Of the remaining 14, 5 are Canadian, 1 is French-Iranian, 1 is British, and 5 are by U.S./UK authors best known outside comics.

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.

In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from David Hajdu 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) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (4) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (5) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
5. (3) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
6. (8) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
7. (-) Plain Janes, Rugg/Castellucci (DC/Minx)
8. (24) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
9. (6) Zombies Calling!, Faith Erins Hicks (Slave Labor)
10. (12) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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11. (7) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke Jeph Loeb J Bone (DC)
12. (10) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
13. (14) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
14. (15) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (27) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
16. (9) The New Frontier 2 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
17. (-) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (-) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
19. (-) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
20. (11) Extraction!: a comix reportage, Tessier/Dubois (Cumulous)
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21. (-) The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC)
22. (16) Keep the Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (19) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (20) Middle Aged Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
25. (17) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
26. (21) Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe, John Bell (Dundurn)
27. (23) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
28. (25) Graphic Witness, George F Walker (Firefly)
29. (26) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (NMK/IDW)
30. (28) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

Cecil Castellucci's Plain Janes makes a return to the list this week. I'm honestly not sure if it dropped from the list last week because I thought Castellucci was American (she is not) or if sales were just lower (honestly!). This week's curious fact: For the record, Omega Flight: Alpha to Omega by Michael Avon Oeming and Scott Kolins would rank at #16 if it was actually created by Canadians and not just about fictional Canadian characters owned by Marvel Comics.

Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: April 10

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/10/2008 05:27:00 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 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. 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.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Naruto 28, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
2. (2) Fruits Basket 19, Natsuki Takay (Tokyopop)
3. (3) Vampire Knight 4, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
4. (-) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (5) Naruto 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (4) Fullmetal Alchemist 16, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
7. (19) Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks et al (Random House)
8. (30) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
9. (10) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (9) Death Note 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
11. (6) Negima! 17: Magister Negi Magi, Toshifumi/Hiroe (Random House)
12. (7) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (8) Death Note 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
14. (13) Death Note 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
15. (11) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (-) Naruto 9, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (39) Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (12) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
19. (-) Bleach 2, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
20. (21) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
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21. (33) Persepolis 1, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
22. (-) Naruto 10, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (14) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf)
24. (23) Bleach 22, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
25. (15) Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
26. (17) Naruto 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
27. (-) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
28. (20) Death Note 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
29. (49) One Piece 17, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
30. (16) Naruto 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
31. (-) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
32. (32) Naruto 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
33. (18) Death Note 12, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
34. (-) Naruto 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
35. (-) Naruto 6, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
36. (-) Naruto 8, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
37. (-) High School Debut 2, Kazune Kawahara (VIZ)
38. (22) Fruits Basket 1, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
39. (-) Naruto 7, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
40. (26) Death Note 13, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
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41. (-) Fairy Tail 1, Hiro Mashima (Random House)
42. (27) Death Note 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
43. (24) Naruto 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
44. (40) Death Note 6, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
45. (46) Naruto 5, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
46. (-) Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
47. (50) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
48. (-) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
49. (25) Naruto 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
50. (38) Naruto 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)

A strong debut (#4) for the latest Lynn Johnston collection, published last week. 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. (-) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (3) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (2) Jellaby, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
4. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (3) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
6. (22) Zombies Calling!, Faith Erins Hicks (Slave Labor)
7. (5) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke Jeph Loeb J Bone (DC)
8. (8) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
9. (6) The New Frontier 2 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
10. (7) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q)
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11. (10) Extraction!: a comix reportage, Tessier/Dubois (Cumulous)
12. (11) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (-) The New Frontier 1 (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
14. (13) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
15. (14) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (15) Keep the Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (16) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q)
18. (20) Northwest Passage, Scott Chantler (Oni)
19. (21) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (23) Middle Aged Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
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21. (9) Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe, John Bell (Dundurn)
22. (-) Rememebering Farley, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
23. (26) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
24. (29) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
25. (-) Graphic Witness, George F Walker (Firefly)
26. (17) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe Salgood Sam (NMK/IDW)
27. (18) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
28. (19) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
29. (-) 365 Days, Julie Doucet (D+Q)
30. (24) The BackBench Collection, Graham Harrop (Ronsdale)

No new entries, only the return of previous listers --with the exception of #1.

Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga

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.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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.

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

Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Feb 20

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

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)

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

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)

Labels: bestsellers, BookManager, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga

Wednesday: Dave Sim, Pascal Blanchet, 2007 Direct Market

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/30/2008 12:00:00 AM

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!

Labels: bestsellers, BookManager, comic strips, graphic novels, manga

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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Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: Dec 12

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

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. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (5) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
3. (4) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (9) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (2) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (3) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
7. (6) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David/Robin Furth (Marvel)
8. (7) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
9. (8) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (10) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
11. (11) Naruto, Volume 1: Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (12) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (13) Teaching Is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (29) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
15. (14) Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Andy Riley (Hodder)
16. (17) Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (30) Death Note, Volume 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
18. (44) The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
19. (15) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (37) Buffy 1: The Long Way Home/Season Eight, Joss Whedon et al (Dark Horse)
21. (31) Alternative Zits, Jim Borgman Jerry Scott (Andrews McMeel)
22. (18) Dilbert: Cubes and Punishment, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
23. (16) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (20) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
25. (19) Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
26. (-) Naruto, Volume 3: Vol. 3, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
27. (27) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
28. (-) Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins)
29. (22) Naruto, Volume 2: Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
30. (26) Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files, Shayne & Abrams (Watson-Guptill)
31. (48) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
32. (23) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
33. (21) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
34. (-) Naruto, Vol. 13, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
35. (-) Bleach, Vol. 3, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
36. (-) Naruto, Vol. 7, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
37. (24) Chibi Vampire 6, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
38. (-) Attack Of The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
39. (35) Bleach, Volume 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
40. (33) Naruto Vol 15, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
41. (-) Watchmen, Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons (DC)
42. (-) I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: Get Fuzzy, Darby Conley (Andrews McMeel)
43. (-) Bleach Vol. 21, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
44. (25) Tsubasa 15: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
45. (50) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
46. (-) Big Beastly Book of Bart Simpson, Matt Groening (Harpercollins)
47. (-) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
48. (46) Scientific Progress Goes Boink, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
49. (-) Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Jim Davis (Random House)
50. (-) Kingdom Hearts II Vol. 1, Shiro Amano/Tetsuya Nomura (Tokyopop)

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 is Christmas and a spate of sales for strip collections and classics. The crossover U.S. graphic novels on the list (Dark Tower and Buffy) are joined this week by Persepolis and Watchmen, while Louis Riel continues its pre-Christmas surge.

The Top 1000 is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to the Transformers to Jerry Siegel to Andy Runton 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. (3) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (4) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (-) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
6. (7) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
7. (5) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
8. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (20) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
10. (6) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke/Jeph Loeb/J Bone (DC)
11. (-) the great hopeful someday, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum Press)
12. (11) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
13. (8) Suddenly Silver, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (14) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (-) DC The New Frontier (Paperback), Darwyn Cooke (DC)
16. (16) Northwest Passage: Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)
17. (15) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (-) Striking A Cord, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
19. (17) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
20. (9) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)


The top 1000 contains more than the usual amount of higher ranking Can-con than usual this week. A revised "Top 24" would include:

21. (10) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
22. (-) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe/Salgood Sam (Insomniac)
23. (12) Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
24. (13) What Next, Aislin (MacArthur & Co.)

As well, the top 20 features some very high debuts for Svetlana Chmakova, Bryan Lee O'Malley, and Elisabeth Belliveau. Various titles that contain work by Canuck artists (Nextwave and Y: The Last Man, for instance) are quite highly ranked in the top 1000, as are the Flight anthologies and various books published by D+Q featuring foreign creators (Moomin, Rutu Modan, Adrian Tomine, etc). I almost included the Marvel trade paperback Omega Flight: Alpha to Omega at the #11 spot, but since the only Canadian thing about it is the subject matter... (ditto for Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes series).

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Weekly Bestsellers: Dec 5

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/05/2007 02:10:00 PM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager (copyright TBM BookManager). This list is accurate for the week ending December 1. 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. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (-) Naruto Vol. 26, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
3. (6) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
4. (-) Naruto Vol. 27, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (3) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
6. (9) Dark Tower:The Gunslinger Born, Peter David/Robin Furth
7. (2) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
8. (4) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (-) Naruto Vol. 25, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
10. (5) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
11. (30) Naruto, Volume 1: Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (8) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
13. (16) Teaching Is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (22) Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Andy Riley (Hodder)
15. (14) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (20) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
17. (11) Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. (-) Dilbert: Cubes and Punishment, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
19. (39) Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (15) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
21. (12) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
22. (31) Naruto, Volume 2: Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (33) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (19) Chibi Vampire 6, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
25. (17) Tsubasa 15: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
26. (43) Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files, Shayne & Abrams (Watson-Guptill)
27. (37) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
28. (-) Beach Blanket Bongo, Matt Groening (Harpercollins)
29. (21) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
30. (28) Death Note, Volume 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
31. (-) Alternative Zits, Jim Borgman Jerry Scott (Andrews McMeel)
32. (26) Loveless 7, Yun Kouga (Tokyopop)
33. (44) Naruto Vol 15, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
34. (24) Vampire Knight, Volume 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
35. (32) Bleach, Volume 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
36. (-) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
37. (50) Buffy 1: The Long Way Home/Season Eight, Joss Whedon et al (Dark Horse)
38. (-) Naruto Vol 6, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
39. (36) Dilbert: Positive Attitude, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
40. (-) Bone: One Volume Edition, Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)
41. (-) Asterix and the Falling Sky, Albert Uderzo (Orion)
42. (47) Naruto Vol 14 , Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
43. (-) One Piece Vol. 16, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
44. (29) The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
45. (-) Foxtrot: And When She Opened the Closet ..., Bill Amend (Andrews McMeel)
46. (-) Scientific Progress Goes Boink, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
47. (34) Black Cat Vol. 11, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ)
48. (42) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
49. (40) Naruto Vol. 18, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
50. (-) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)

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). The big news here is the publication of 3 new and eagerly-awaited Naruto volumes which have taken up quite a bit of space at the top of the list. The 2 U.S. graphic novels on the list, both crossovers from other media, Stephen King's Dark Tower and the Buffy GN, have risen slightly in the ranks. The biggest surprise is the suden pre-Xmas surge for the perennial Canadian fave, Louis Riel.

The Top 1000 is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Todd Hignite to Charles Schulz to the Transformers to Jerry Siegel to Andy Runton 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 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. (3) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (-) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (11) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (4) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke/Jeph Loeb/J Bone (DC)
7. (5) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
8. (12) Suddenly Silver, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
9. (6) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
10. (7) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
11. (8) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
12. (13) Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (18) What Next, Aislin (MacArthur & Co.)
14. (10) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (9) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (-) Northwest Passage: Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler (Oni)
17. (15) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (14) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
19. (17) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
20. (16) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)

Most of those For Better or For Worse collections have been on and off the list forever. Guy Delisle's Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China is #21 this week. Both Shenznen and Pyongyang have routinely been near the bottom of the top 20 the last few weeks. Scott Chantler's two-fisted fur-trading epic Northwest Passage returns to the list after a short absence as well (the Chantler-illustrated Tek Jansen Adventures is #1 on the Amazon list currently). Various titles that contain work by Canuck artists (Nextwave and Y: The Last Man, for instance) are quite highly ranked in the top 1000, as are the Flight anthologies and various books published by D+Q featuring foreign creators (Moomin, Rutu Modan, Adrian Tomine, etc).

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Weekly Bestsellers: November 28

:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/28/2007 02:24:00 PM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager (copyright TBM BookManager). This list is accurate for the week ending November 24. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through independent bookstores (although it includes 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. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
3. (4) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
4. (5) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
5. (3) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (9) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
7. (27) The Far Side 2008 Wall Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
8. (8) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (6) Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, David & Furth
10. (12) Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Jim Davis (Random House)
11. (7) Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
12. (14) Vampire Knight Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
13. (11) Schulz and Peanuts, David Michaelis (Harpercollins)
14. (10) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (18) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
16. (16) Teaching Is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (15) Tsubasa 15: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
18. (48) The Far Side 2008 Mini Wall Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
19. (37) Chibi Vampire 6, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
20. (13) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
21. (17) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
22. (19) Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Andy Riley (Hodder)
23. (31) Garfield Blots Out the Sun, Jim Davis (Random House)
24. (-) Vampire Knight, Volume 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
25. (49) Dilbert: 2008 Day-to-Day Calendar, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
26. (-) Loveless 7, Yun Kouga (Tokyopop)
27. (-) Cartoons From The New Yorker: 2008 Day-to-Day Calendar (Andrews McMeel)
28. (-) Death Note, Volume 2, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
29. (39) The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
30. (22) Naruto, Volume 1: Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
31. (23) Naruto, Volume 2: Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
32. (33) Bleach, Volume 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
33. (20) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
34. (21) Black Cat Vol. 11, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ)
35. (-) Fruits Basket 1, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
36. (-) Positive Attitude, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
37. (-) The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
38. (30) Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
39. (-) Death Note, Volume 7, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
40. (32) Naruto Vol. 18, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
41. (-) Bleach Vol 19, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
42. (-) Death Note, Volume 3, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
43. (-) Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files, Shayne & Abrams (Watson-Guptill)
44. (24) Naruto Vol 15, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
45. (-) Death Note, Volume 4, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
46. (25) Simpsons 2008 Fun Calendar, Matt Groening (Harpercollins)
47. (50) Naruto Vol 14 , Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
48. (43) Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 1, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
49. (-) Bleach Vol. 21, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
50. (28) Buffy 1: The Long Way Home/Season Eight, Joss Whedon et al (Dark Horse)



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 perod 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). Of the 2 U.S. graphic novels on the list, both crossover from other media, Stephen King's Dark Tower has dropped a few spaces, while the Buffy GN has almost been pushed off the list.

The Top 1000 is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Douglas Wolk to Charles Schulz to the Transformers to Jerry Siegel to Nana 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 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) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (18) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke/Jeph Loeb/J Bone (DC)
5. (3) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
6. (7) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
7. (8) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
8. (6) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
9. (10) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (-) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
11. (11) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (-) Suddenly Silver, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (17) Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
14. (15) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (21) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
16. (13) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
17. (24) Essex County 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (-) What Next, Aislin (MacArthur & Co.)
19. (16) Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
20. (19) It's The Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

Last week's #20, Therefore Repent by Jim Munroe and Salgood Sam is #21 this week; Pyongyang by Guy Delisle is #22 (22 last week). Various titles that contain work by Canuck artists (Nextwave and Y: The Last Man, for instance) are quite highly ranked in the top 1000, as are the Flight anthologies and various books published by D+Q featuring foreign creators (Moomin, Adrian Tomine).

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

Weekly Bestsellers

:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/21/2007 01:00:00 PM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. This list is accurate for the week ending November 17. 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.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (-) Fruits Basket 18, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
3. (6) Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (12) The Far Side 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
5. (3) Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (15) Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, S. King/Peter David/Robin Furth
7. (21) Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (5) Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
9. (8) Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
10. (4) Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
11. (7) Schulz and Peanuts, David Michaelis (Harpercollins)
12. (13) Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Jim Davis (Random House)
13. (9) Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
14. (19) Vampire Knight, Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
15. (10) Tsubasa 15: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
16. (11) Teaching: Is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
17. (24) Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba/Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
18. (14) Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW)
19. (-) Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Andy Riley (Hodder)
20. (16) Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
21. (-) Black Cat Vol. 11, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ)
22. (18) Naruto, Volume 1: Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (28) Naruto, Volume 2: Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
24. (17) Naruto Vol 15, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (-) Simpsons 2008 Fun Calendar, Matt Groening (Harpercollins)
26. (19) Vampire Knight, Volume 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
27. (-) The Far Side 2008 Wall Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
28. (27) Buffy 1: The Long Way Home/Season Eight, Whedon er al (DH)
29. (26) The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
30. (25) Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
31. (31) Garfield Blots Out the Sun, Jim Davis (Random House)
32. (23) Naruto Vol. 18, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
33. (37) Bleach, Volume 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
34. (50) One Piece Vol. 16, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
35. (48) Naruto, Volume 13, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
36. (20) Bleach Vol. 21, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
37. (-) Chibi Vampire 6, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop)
38. (-) Kitchen Princess 4, Natsumi Ando/Miyuki Kobayashi (Random House)
39. (-) The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
40. (-) Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel)
41. (-) Naruto, Volume 12, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
42. (38) Alternative Zits, Jim Borgman Jerry Scott (Andrews McMeel)
43. (-) Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 1, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
44. (32) Fruits Basket 17, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
45. (45) Asterix and the Falling Sky, Albert Uderzo Anthea Bell(Orion)
46. (30) Tsubasa 14: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
47. (33) Fall In Love Like a Comic Vol. 1, Chitose Yagami (VIZ)
48. (34) The Far Side 2008 Mini Wall Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
49. (36) Dilbert: 2008 Day-to-Day Calendar, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
50. (41) Naruto Vol 14, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)


Once again, an almost all-manga and comic strip collection list, of which the most mind-boggling to me is the presence of 4 (!) different calendars reprinting Gary Larson's long-gone Far Side panels. 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 like the eagerly-awaited 18th volume of Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket manga series. Of the 2 U.S. graphic novels on the list, both crossover from other media, Stephen King's Dark Tower has surged quite a few spaces, while the Buffy GN has tumbled one.

The Top 1000 is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Douglas Wolk to Charles Schulz to the Transformers to Jerry Siegel to Nana 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:

Canadian Top 20
from BookManagers Top 1000

1. (1) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. (2) Teaching is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. (4) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
4. (3) For Better or For Worse: 2008 Calendar, Lynn Johnston
5. (5) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
6. (12) White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
7. (16) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
8. (21) Dramacon 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
9. (6) She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. (10) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
11. (11) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (7) I Love My Grandpa, Lynn Johnston/Andie Parton (Andrews McMeel)
13. (8) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
14. (-) Last Straw, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
15. (-) Keep The Home Fries Burning, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (15) Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
17. (-) Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
18. (-) The Spirit (Hardcover), Darwyn Cooke/Jeph Loeb/J Bone (DC)
19. (-) It's The Thought That Counts, Lynn Johnston/Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
20. (-) Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe/Salgood Sam (Insomniac)

Congrats are due to Sequential's own Salgood Sam for that #20 ranking. Last week's #13, Essex County 2: Ghost Stories by Jeff Lemire, is this week's #21. Guy Delisle's Pyongyang and Scott Chantler's Northwest Passage hardcover (#s 14 and 17 last week) are #22 and #23 this week, probably done in by a Lynn Johnston buying spree or two.

Labels: bestsellers, BookManager, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels

Bestsellers

:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/15/2007 11:48:00 AM

The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. This list is accurate for the week ending November 10. 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.

Top 50 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada

1. Senior's Discount: A FBOFW Collection, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. Naruto Vol. 21, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
3. Naruto Vol. 24, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
4. Naruto Vol. 19, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
5. Naruto Vol. 23, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
6. Naruto Vol. 22, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
7. Schulz and Peanuts, David Michaelis (Harpercollins)
8. Garfield Goes Bananas, Jim Davis (Random House)
9. Naruto Vol. 20, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
10. Tsubasa 15: Reservoir Chronicle, Clamp (Random House)
11. Teaching: Is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. The Far Side Scared Silly: 2008 Desk Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
13. Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack, Jim Davis (Random House)
14. Herman: Living With Animals, Jim Unger (ECW Press)
15. Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, David & Furth (Diamond)
16. Naruto Vol. 17, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
17. Naruto Vol. 15 , Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
18. Naruto, Vol. 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
19. Vampire Knight, Vol 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
20. Bleach Vol. 21, Tite Kubo Frances Wall (VIZ)
21. Vampire Knight, Vol. 3, Matsuri Hino Megan Bates (VIZ)
22. Kitchen Princess 4, Natsumi Ando Miyuki Kobayashi (Random House)
23. Naruto Vol. 18, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
24. Death Note, Volume 1, Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
25. Naruto Vol. 16, Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall (VIZ)
26. The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Red:Red, Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
27. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1: The Long Way Home: Season Eight, Joss Whedon et al (Dark Horse)
28. Naruto, Volume 2: Vol. 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
29. And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyester, Bill Amend (Andrews McMeel)
30. Tsubasa 14: Reservoir Chronicle , Clamp (Random House)
31. Garfield Blots Out the Sun, Jim Davis (Random House)
32. Fruits Basket 17, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
33. Fall In Love Like a Comic Vol. 1, Chitose Yagami Nancy Thistethwaite (VIZ)
34. The Far Side Scared Silly: 2008 Mini Wall Calendar, Gary Larson (Andrews McMeel)
35. The Best of Pokemon Adventures: Yellow:Yellow Hidenori Kusaka Mato (VIZ)
36. Dilbert: 2008 Day-to-Day Calendar, Scott Adams (Andrews McMeel)
37. Bleach, Volume 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
38. Alternative Zits: A Zits Treasury, Jim Borgman Jerry Scott (Andrews McMeel)
39. Vampire Knight, Volume 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
40. Bleach Vol 19, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
41. Naruto Vol 14, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
42. Big Beastly Book of Bart Simpson, Matt Groening (Harpercollins)
43. Fruits Basket Fan Book Neko Ca, Natsuki Takaya (Tokyopop)
44. Hobbit Graphic Novel, Tolkien et al (Harpercollins Uk)
45. Asterix and the Falling Sky, Albert Uderzo Anthea Bell (Orion)
46. Psycho Busters 1, Akinari Nao Yuya Aoki (Random House)
47. 30 Days of Night, Steve Niles Ben Templesmith (IDW)
48. Naruto, Volume 13, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
49. D. Gray-man Vol. 7, Hoshino Katsura Frances Wall (VIZ)
50. One Piece Vol. 16, Eiichiro Oda Beth Kawasaki (VIZ)

Now, if you remove the strip collections, it's basically an all manga list, with Naruto ruling the roost, as it does in the U.S. The kids love manga! If you remove translations, including manga, it's basically an all U.S. list, with a few exceptions. To come up with a top-20 ranking of books by Canadian creators, you have to dig much deeper into the list: Lynn Johnston's Senior's Discount is the actual #1, whereas Dramacon 2 (#21) comes in around the 1000 mark. There are several D+Q books by foreign creators (Moomin, Adrian Tomine, Rutu Modan) that would also rank high on this list if I was counting publishers. Ditto anthologies like Flight or the various Simpson collections (or Pia Guerra's art in Y: The Last Man).

Canadian Top 20

1. Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
2. Teaching: Is a Learning Experience!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
3. For Better or For Worse: 2008 Day-to-Day Calendar, Lynn Johnston
4. The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al (DC/Minx)
5. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown (D+Q)
6. She's Turning into One of Them!, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. I Love My Grandpa, Lynn Johnston Andie Parton (Andrews McMeel)
8. Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker (Firefly)
9. Remembering Farley, Lynn Johnston Velda Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
10. The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
11. Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q)
13. Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
14. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
15. Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
16. Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop)
17. Northwest Passage: The Annotated Collection, Scott Chantler
18. Essex County Vol. 1: Tales From the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
19. What Next, Aislin (Mcarthur & Company)
20. With This Ring, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)

Labels: bestsellers, BookManager, comics retailers, graphic novels

Bestsellers & Lynn Johnston Vid

:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/08/2007 10:32:00 AM

For you to view: a short doc from CBC's The National about Lynn Johnston wherein Canada's most famous cartoonist sounds off on her career, life, and work. Johnston, whose latest book is currently #4 on the Amazon.ca graphic novel bestseller list (#240 overall) certainly has had an interesting year and this tiny piece of video may temporarily satiate the many For Better or For Worse-watchers who are waiting on her next move.

Speaking of bestseller lists, it's been awhile since Sequential has checked in with the online sellers to try and gauge what the folks are reading. Amazon.ca breaks down the comics and graphic novel list by category (GNs, manga, etc) as well as having a general overall list. The bestsellers of the moment are fairly predictable if you follow the media hype for comics at all, with titles like Buffy, Stephen King's Dark Tower, The Complete Peanuts, Fruits Basket and Naruto dominating the list. Some surprises, like the Perry Bible Fellowship collection (currently #3), keep the list interesting. As for Can-con, aside from a few work-for-hire U.S. imports like Tek Jansen and Y: The Last Man, you have to go pretty far down the list before you find a graphic novel by a Canadian creator (that would be Dramacon 3 by Svetlana Chmakova, currently available for pre-order and ranked at #78).

The Chapters-Indigo list tells an entirely different story. You can figure out a bestselling manga list easily enough, but a general comics and graphic novel list is harder to come up with. Various searches yield different results. Try here, here, for fairly boring and predictable lists of bestsellers dominated by imported U.S. superhero publishers. A straight search for graphic novel bestsellers yields this list, which is closer to what you might see on Amazon. George Walker's collection of woodcut novels turned up in one search I did, but I can't remember how.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, two lists published by a smaller Canadian retailer yield two extremely different yet interesting results. Montreal's Fichtre, specializing in French-language and Quebec bd, has a monthly and year-to-date top 15 list chock full of indie books and Quebec cartoonists like Michel Rabagliati and Jimmy Beaulieu.


However, by far the most comprehensive list of retail graphic novel sales in Canada comes from Bookmanager. An industry standard, their full list just goes on and on, but here are the top 50 strip collections & graphic novels in Canada, as of November 8:

1. Senior's Discount: A For Better or For Worse Collection
Lynn Johnston
Andrews McMeel Publishing

2. Naruto Vol. 21 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

3. Naruto Vol. 19 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

4. Schulz and Peanuts (Hardcover)
David Michaelis
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers

5. Naruto Vol. 20 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

6. Tsubasa 15: Reservoir Chronicle (Paperback)
Clamp
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

7. Garfield Goes Bananas: His 44th Book (Paperback)
Jim Davis
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

8. The Far Side ® Scared Silly: 2008 Desk Calendar (Calendar)
Gary Larson
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

9. Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack: A Triple Helping of Classic GARFIELD Humor Vol 3 (Paperback)
Jim Davis
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

10. Naruto Vol. 24 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

11. Bleach Vol. 21 (Paperback)
Tite Kubo Frances Wall
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

12. Kitchen Princess 4 (Paperback)
Natsumi Ando Miyuki Kobayashi
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

13. Naruto, Volume 1: Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

14. Naruto Vol. 22 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

15. And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyest: A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)
Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

16. Naruto Vol. 23 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto Frances Wall
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

17. The Far Side ® Scared Silly: 2008 Wall Calendar (Calendar)
Gary Larson
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

18. Teaching: Is a Learning Experience! (Paperback)
Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

19. Fruits Basket 17 (Paperback)
Natsuki Takaya
Publisher: Tokyopop

20. Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (Hardcover)
David & Furth Peter David Robin Furth
Publisher: Diamond Book Distribution

21. Alternative Zits: A Zits Treasury (Paperback)
Jim Borgman Jerry Scott
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

22. Death Note, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

23. Vampire Knight, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Matsuri Hino
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

24. Vampire Knight, Vol. 3 (Paperback)
Matsuri Hino Megan Bates
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

25. Psycho Busters 1 (Paperback)
Akinari Nao Yuya Aoki
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

26. Bleach, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Tite Kubo
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

27. Garfield Blots Out the Sun: His 43rd book (Paperback)
Jim Davis
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

28. Dark Hunger (Paperback)
Christine Feehan
Publisher: Berkley Publishing TRD

29. Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Hiromu Arakawa
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

30. Naruto, Volume 13 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

31. Naruto Vol 14 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

32. Death Note, Volume 4 (Paperback)
Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

33. Fruits Basket 1 (Paperback)
Natsuki Takaya
Publisher: Tokyopop

34. Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack: A triple helping of classic Garfield humor (Paperback)
Jim Davis
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

35. Death Note, Volume 2 (Paperback)
Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

36. Death Note, Volume 8 (Paperback)
Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

37. Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files (Paperback)
David Shayne J Abrams
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

38. Justice (Hardcover)
Jim Kreuger Alex Ross Doug Braithwaite
Publisher: DC Comics

39. Simpsons 2008 Fun Calendar (Calendar)
Matt Groening
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers

40. 30 Days of Night (Paperback)
Steve Niles Ben Templesmith
Publisher: Idea & Design Works Llc {IDESN}

41. Asterix and the Falling Sky (Paperback)
Albert Uderzo Anthea Bell
Publisher: Orion

42. Naruto, Volume 2: Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

43. The Far Side ® Scared Silly: 2008 Mini Wall Calendar (Calendar)
Gary Larson
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

44. Trivial Simpsons 2008 366 Day Calendar (Calendar)
Matt Groening
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers

45. Naruto, Volume 3: Vol. 3 (Paperback)
Masashi Kishimoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

46. Fruits Basket 2 (Paperback)
Natsuki Takaya Yuya Aoki
Publisher: Tokyopop

47. Chibi Vampire 5 (Paperback)
Yuna Kagesaki
Publisher: Tokyopop

48. Shortcomings (Hardcover)
Adrian Tomine
Publisher: Drawn & QuarterlyShortcomings (Hardcover)

49. Fruits Basket 4 (Paperback)
Natsuki Takaya Yuya Aoki
Publisher: Tokyopop

50. Bleach, Volume 16 (Paperback)
Tite Kubo
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

Labels: bestsellers, BookManager, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, Lynn Johnston, Quebec, video

Fun with Amazon.ca Bestsellers Lists

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/13/2007 12:00:00 AM

Amazon.ca/Books in Canada Bestsellers

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/03/2007 12:04:00 AM

Top 20 Graphic Novels in Canada

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/26/2007 12:01:00 AM