PWCW top ten

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week lists their top ten comics for January, which seems to encompass the holiday shopping season as well. Here they are:

1. Naruto, vol. 12
2. Fruits Basket, vol. 15
3. Negima, vol. 12
4. Bleach, vol. 16
5. Full Metal Alchemist, vol. 10
6. Naruto, vol. 11
7. The Best American Comics 2006
8. Halo Graphic Novel
9. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, vol. 1
10. Death Note, vol. 8

And then, in sort of a desperate attempt to show that it’s not all about the manga, they highlight three books that didn’t make it into the top ten, Marvel Zombies, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True stories, and Absolute Sandman, while ignoring whatever (probably manga) ranked number 12 and 14.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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One Response to PWCW top ten

  1. David Welsh says:
    January 10, 2007 at 8:20 am

    That was so odd! It’s like manga just gets a shrug of resignation while everything else but the Halo book (which is apparently sufficiently and self-evidently populist) needed to be explained.

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