Friday, January 13, 2012

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this morning. All the previous caveats apply.


1 (-). Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)
2 (+4). Dork Diaries 3 (Kindle)
3 (+2). Big Nate Out Loud (Kindle)
4 (+3). Big Nate and Friends (Kindle)
5 (-1). Dork Diaries 1 (Kindle)
6 (-4). The Walking Dead Volume 15
7 (N). Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
8 (+5). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
9 (+2). Dork Diaries 2 (Kindle)
10 (+4). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
11 (-1). Big Nate: From the Top (Kindle)
12 (+8). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
13 (+22). The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (revised and expanded edition)
14 (+7). The Complete Persepolis
15 (-3). The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 1
16 (+19). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
17 (+23). Sailor Moon 3 *
18 (-2). Batman: The Black Mirror
19 (+5). V for Vendetta
20 (N). X-Men: Schism
21 (+11). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
22 (+4). Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4)
23 (+7). The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 5)
24 (-2). The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 2
25 (+22). The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
26 (+18). Watchmen
27 (-). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
28 (-19). Cul de Sac Golden Treasury: A Keepsake Garland of Classics (Kindle)
29 (-4). The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 3
30 (-27). Dilbert: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar
31 (+3). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books (1-5)
32 (+7). Dork Diaries 3 ½ (Kindle)
33 (-16). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
34 (+8). Batman: The Killing Joke
35 (+3). Batman: Year One
36 (-7). Fables Vol. 16: Super Team
37 (R). American Born Chinese
38 (-10). Dog Eat Doug: A Cartoon Collection (Kindle)
39 (N). Fear Itself *
40 (-21). The Argyle Sweater: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar
41 (-8). The Walking Dead, Book 7
42 (-6). The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 4
43 (R). Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition)
44 (-3). The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
45 (R). The Walking Dead, Book 1
46 (-1). 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (Kindle)
47 (+2). The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 5
48 (R). Batman: Hush
49 (N). Star Wars: Legacy Volume 11 - War *
50 (-42). Annotated Sandman Vol. 1


Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.

N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks


Commentary:

* The Wimpy Kid's Cabin Fever slides down again to #26 on the overall list; still #1 here on the comics list. The next several slots are taken up by Kindle editions of Wimpy Kid wanna-bes Dork Diary & Big Nate; makes you wonder how many digital editions The Wimpy Kid could sell if it was available on the Kindle...

* The top debut this week is the non-fiction Health Care Reform. Also debuting are a couple of collections of Marvel's recent event comics and a Star Wars collection.

* Last week's big debut, The Annotated Sandman, surprisingly tumbles out of the top ten all the way down to the bottom of the list.

* Dead Watch: Only four Walking Dead collections on the list this week; I imagine we'll have to wait for the return of the television series in February to see another uptick in Walking Dead sales. (Amazon appears to be out-of-stock on the WD Compendium at present, which is no doubt affecting sales.)

* Tintin Watch: Six Tintin collections this week. I think it's safe to say that the movie has had a positive impact on Tintin comic sales.

2 comments:

fdsfds said...

WOW. Such great novels in the middle and the end? Very stupid!

Dave Carter said...

Stupid? In what way?