Every year we dig into the files and extract a list of the best-sellers. This year we’ve broken our list into rough categories:
- All Ages & Young Adult Graphic Novels
- Manga
- General Graphic Novels and trades
Here is the list of General Graphic Novels. This will include all of the usual superhero stuff, Image Comics, and heaps of indy publishers. This includes books that were originally serialised in single issues and books that were originally published in graphic novel format. Hardcovers and Paperbacks are also treated equally here.
It looks like the movies might have helped a few sales, but not nearly as much as Netflix series, podcasts, and just seriously good comics. Saga has dominated the list for 5 years, but there hasn’t been any new Saga comics in eighteen months. Can Saga still register with no new content to push it?
Let’s find out…
Best-Selling Graphic Novels of 2019
- UMBRELLA ACADEMY TP VOL 01 APOCALYPSE SUITE
- ADVENTURE ZONE GN VOL 02 Murder On the Rockport Limited
- ADVENTURE ZONE GN VOL 01 HERE THERE BE GERBLINS
- UMBRELLA ACADEMY TP VOL 03 HOTEL OBVLIVION
- UMBRELLA ACADEMY TP VOL 02 DALLAS
- WATCHMEN
- SAGA TP VOL 01 (MR)
- JOKER (Brian AZZARELLO & Lee BERMEJO)
- CRITICAL ROLE TP VOL 01 VOX MACHINA ORIGINS
- SAGA TP VOL 09 (MR) [#49-54]
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD [Harper Lee]
- BATMAN The KILLING JOKE SPECIAL EDITION
- RICK AND MORTY VS DUNGEONS & DRAGONS
- PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 01
- BATMAN DAMNED HC (MR)
- SNOW GLASS APPLES HC
- MONSTRESS TP VOL 01
- SANDMAN VOL 01 PRELUDES & NOCTURNES
- WALKING DEAD VOL 31
- WALKING DEAD TP VOL 32
- MAUS – SURVIVORS TALE COMPLETE
- WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 08
- NEIL GAIMAN AMERICAN GODS HC VOL 01 SHADOWS
- SAGA TP VOL 02 (MR)
- STRANGER THINGS TP VOL 01 OTHER SIDE
- DARK NIGHTS METAL
- HANDMAIDS TALE
- PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 06
- WILLIAM GIBSON’S ALIEN 3 HC
- DEADLY CLASS TP VOL 01 REAGAN YOUTH
- BATMAN YEAR ONE DELUXE SC
- DOOMSDAY CLOCK HC PART 01
- SAGA TP VOL 08 (MR) [#43-48]
- NEIL GAIMAN AMERICAN GODS HC VOL 02 MY AINSEL
- BATMAN WHO LAUGHS HC
- SAGA TP VOL 03 (MR)
- ISOLA TP VOL 01 [#1-5]
- PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 03
- WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 09
- BATMAN TP VOL 01 THE COURT OF OWLS (New52)
- EAST OF WEST TP VOL 09 [#39-42]
- SAGA TP VOL 04 (MR)
- SAGA TP VOL 05 (MR)
- SAGA TP VOL 07 (MR)
- BATMAN WHITE KNIGHT
- WALKING DEAD VOL 01
- OBLIVION SONG BY KIRKMAN & DE FELICI VOL 01
- PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 05
- PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 02
- INFINITY GAUNTLET TP [1991 #1-6]
- MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES
- SANDMAN VOL 02 THE DOLLS HOUSE
- SAGA TP VOL 06 (MR)
- MONSTRESS TP VOL 04 (MR) [#19-24]
- KINGDOM COME (Mark WAID & Alex Ross)
- MONSTRESS TP VOL 02 (MR)
- GIDEON FALLS TP VOL 01
- SANDMAN VOL 03 DREAM COUNTRY NEW…
- MONSTRESS TP VOL 03 (MR)
- PHANTOM (Frew) FOR THOSE WHO CAME IN LATE
- PHANTOM (Frew) SWORD OF THE CALIPH
- PHANTOM (Frew) MAN WHO CANNOT DIE
- AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY NICK SPENCER VOL 01 BACK TO BASICS
- AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE (STAN LEE) SC
- JOKER DEATH Of The FAMILY TP (N52)
- RAT QUEENS TP VOL 01
- WALKING DEAD VOL 30
- DARK KNIGHT RETURNS TP New EDITION
- SANDMAN VOL 04 SEASON OF MISTS
- MISTER MIRACLE TP (MR)
- STAR WARS DARTH VADER DARK LORD SITH TP VOL 01 IMPERIAL MACHINE (2017 #1-6)
- WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 07
- INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR ONE COMPLETE COLLECTION
- DARK NIGHTS METAL DARK KNIGHTS RISING TP
- WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 01
- FABLES VOL 01 LEGENDS IN EXILE
- THE BOYS OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 (MR)
- LIFE IS STRANGE TP VOL 01
- STAR WARS DARTH VADER TP VOL 01
- BATMAN HUSH – COMPLETE TP
- FIREFLY UNIFICATION WAR HC VOL 01
- V FOR VENDETTA NEW EDITION TP (MR)
- MARVELS AVENGERS TP ENDGAME PRELUDE
- PTSD GN
- PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 04
- CIVIL WAR
- AVENGERS BY JASON AARON TP VOL 01 FINAL HOST
- PREACHER TP BOOK 01 (MR)
- RAT QUEENS TP VOL 06
- BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER TP VOL 01 [2018]
- MILES MORALES SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 01 STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN
- HELLBLAZER TP VOL 01 ORIGINAL SIN
- HELLBOY OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 SEED OF DESTRUCTION to RIGHT HAND OF DOOM
- BATMAN TP VOL 04 ZERO YEAR SECRET CITY (N52)
- Y THE LAST MAN TP BOOK 01 (MR)
- OVERWATCH ANTHOLOGY VOL 1
- STAR WARS TP THRAWN
- UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL TP VOL 01 SQUIRREL POWER
- SABRINA CHILLING ADVENTURES TP VOL 01 (MR)
- INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR THREE COMPLETE COLLECTION TP