Check out this week’s USA Today best-seller list, for the week ending December 30 (number in parentheses is last week’s rank):
78. Naruto, vol. 27 (135)
89. Naruto, vol. 26 (228)
96. Warriors: Warrior’s Refuge (0)
113. Naruto, vol. 25 (312)
Given that Diary of a Wimpy Kid, all of Stephanie Meyer’s YA novels, and all the Golden Compass books behaved similarly, I think we can safely attribute this to a lot of the younger generation using the gift cards Grandma sent them for Christmas. BTW, I haven’t checked, but this may be the first time that five works of sequential art have made the list at once (since everyone seems to regard Diary of a Wimpy Kid as a comic).
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.
