Tag: bestsellers

Once again we are breaking down the numbers from 2022 to find out what was most popuar with our customers.

It was another year of dealing with the fallout from the pandemic, and the changes to distribution. We couldn’t always get what we needed in a reasonable time, but it was much better than the previous two years. So, it is a pretty accurate snapshot of what is popular withour customers.

We are breaking down our numbers across a number of lists, this one with all of the main Graphic Novels, which we include trade paperbacks, graphic novels, adaptations, and most western style comics in book form that aren’t specifically aimed at younger readers or young adults. We’ll also have a list for Kids & Teens, and a separate list for manga, and Other Books.

Obviously, the number 1 bestseller is…

Back once again with our annual shake down of what was filling those white paper bags as they walked out the door in 2022.

We’ve broken the list up into sections, Kids & Teens, Graphic Novels, Manga, and Other Books. So keep an eye out for the other lists as they go up.

2022 continued to be a bit of a distribution headache as stock was ordered from heaps of different suppliers, but while a real pain, it wass much more stable than previous years, and there weren’t as many shortages of hot books.

The big stand out event of 2022 can be seen right here in the #1 selling book….

We’ve been crunching the numbers, and we have a list of our 100 best sellers of 2021.
Here we have a list of our graphic novels… well, strictly speaking there are graphic novels, and trade paperbacks, and hardcovers… but you get the idea, essentially western style comics in a bound books form. Some of them were only ever printed in this form, those are the graphic novels (often called Original Graphic Novels, OGNs.) Some of them are reprints of comics that previously came out in single pamphlet comics (usually called Trade Paperbacks, TPs.)

Anyway, we had some crazy months when things were hard to get, distribution got a bit screwy… Supply of Marvel books got a bit inconsistent as they shifted distribution, resulting in them barely getting any titles in our top 100 this year! Then there was the ransomware attack on our suppliers meaning we couldn’t restock Marvel or Image books for a couple of months.

Oh, yeah, we also had 9 weeks of lockdown. And through the whole thing, people kept demanding more comics.

So, here is our countdown of our 2021 top 100 graphic novel volumes… can you guess what will be #1?

We’ve been crunching the numbers, and we have a list of our 100 best selling manga volumes of 2021.
Despite lockdowns, paper shortages, shipping problems, and more craziness, we did our best to supply manga to the avid readers of the Canberra region!
Here is our countdown of our top 100 manga volumes… how many have you read?