compiled/edited by B. Munn
Back after a one-week break!
Intro: 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. See here for our previous list.
Sequential’s Over-All Top 30 from BookManager
1. (1) Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks (Crown)
2. (3) Vampire Knight 8, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
3. (2) Naruto 46, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (-) Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis et al (Bloomsbury)
5. (19) Manga Mutiny, Hidenori Kumai/Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
6. (-) Bleach 29, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
7. (5) Rosario + Vampire 10, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
8. (7) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
9. (6) Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection, Roff et al (Chronicle)
10. (4) Negima! 24, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
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11. (9) Book of Genesis, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
12. (-) Asterix and Obelix Birthday, Uderzo (Orion)
13. (16) Fullmetal Alchemist 20, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
14. (-) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (-) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (-) Celebrating Peanuts 60 Years, Schulz (Andrews)
17. (8) Black Bird 2, Kanoko Sakurakoji (VIZ)
18. (-) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
19. (24) Garfield 47, Davis et al (Random House)
20. (-) Tales from the Crypt 8, Maia Kinney-Petrucha et al (Papercutz)
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21. (-) Maximum Ride 2, James Patterson et al (Orbit)
22. (-) Naruto 45, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (-) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
24. (28) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (-) Garfield 3 Pack, Davis et al (Random)
26. (-) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
27. (29) Death Note 2, Tsugumi Ohba/Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
28. (26) Death Note 1, Tsugumi Ohba/Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
29. (-) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
30. (-) Asterix Olympics, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
Well, you take a week off, alot can happen, y’know?
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. On this list, a single sale in a single tiny bookstore can make all the difference. This list does not include books that are only illustrated but not written/created-by Canadians.
This week: The “Seth Signing Tour Effect” lingers and Lynn Johnston begins her annual “Holiday gift-book buying” charge up the charts.
Sequential’s All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager
1. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (1) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
4. (4) The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum)
5. (17) Senior’s Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (7) It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
7. (24) The Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
8. (-) Ojingogo, Matthew Forsythe (D+Q)
9. (11) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
10. (6) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
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11. (9) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
12. (8) Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks, Marc Bell (D+Q)
13. (23) In Me Own Words, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
14. (29) The Nobody, Jeff Lemire (DC/Vertigo)
15. (12) Wimbledon Green, Seth (D+Q)
16. (14) Collected Doug Wright 1, Doug Wright (D+Q)
17. (25) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
18. (30) Important Artifacts, Leanne Shapton (Farrar, Strauss + Giroux)
19. (21) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni)
20. (10) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni)
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21. (26) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni)
22. (-) Clyde Fans Bk 1, Seth (D+Q)
23. (28) Essex County, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
24. (13) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)
25. (16) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
26. (18) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni)
27. (27) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni)
28. (-) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
29. (-) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews)
30. (15) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
(note: previous rank in parentheses)
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