Thinking Critical's video: New Comic Book Industry Is Leaving Marvel and DC Behind

Don't forget to subscribe to the channel and like the video! Support Thinking Critical at Ko-fi. Monthly subscriptions receive bonus content and early access to some channel content. Ko-fi.com/thinkingcritical Thank you for supporting the channel! Thinking Critical Discord: https://discord.gg/uHM3Z68 Twitch Channel https://www.twitch.tv/thinking_critical_yt Adult Graphic Novels Sales In Bookstores More Than Double In A Year Via https://archive.vn/A0MZn Publisher's Weekly notes that overall, that the sales of print books rose 19.5% in the last week of January 2021, compared to the last week of January in 2020, according to bookstores that report into the NPD BookScan figures. And that marks three weeks in a row of sales being up 19% or more based on figures a year ago. In total, print unit sales were 21.3% higher in January 2021 than January 2020. But they also noted that adult graphic novels sold through bookstores or online booksellers also had a huge week, outperforming the rest of the market significantly, up 110% on their equivalent sales a year ago. That's more than double what they were selling last January. It doesn't seem that there was any specific one graphic novel release fuelling this, no large franchise release, just a general tide of increased sales all round. Bleeding Cool noted recently that Friends Forever, the final chapter of Shannon Hale's graphic novels Best Friends, had just set a million print run as it aims for an older audience than previous volumes – which is basically what Rob Liefeld's Youngblood  sold thirty years ago. Not everyone will make the comparison between those two comics, but that's what Bleeding Cool is here for. If you are looking for a new comic book boom right now, it's through the bookstore. And not just the kids and YA stuff either, adult fiction graphic novels in bookstores and online markets are now the beneficiary of the audience that Scholastic stoked in the school bookfair markets ten years ago –  and still manages to work with, even in these shutdown and lockdown-challenged times. JANUARY 2021 NPD BOOKSCAN - TOP 20 ADULT GRAPHIC NOVELS Via https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/47528/january-2021-npd-bookscan-top-20-adult-graphic-novels Here’s something we haven’t seen before: 19 the top 20 adult graphic novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for January 2021 (1/3/21-1/30/21) provided to ICv2, were manga. There’s usually a lot of manga on the chart, but in January 2021, there was only one title that originated in North America: the George Takei memoir They Called Us Enemy, at . Contact Thinking Critical: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wes_from_TC Email wesdigscomics@gmail.com