Extra: ICv2 posts Bookscan numbers

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

One thing before I head out: ICv2 has begun posting the monthly BookScan top 20 graphic novel chart. Because BookScan covers mostly bookstores, we can have lots of fun comparing it to the monthly Diamond chart, which is based on sales in comics stores. The difference is immediately evident: While manga tends to populate the lower reaches of the Diamond top 100, the first five titles on the BookScan chart are recent volumes of Naruto, Fruits Basket, Negima, and Fullmetal Alchemist, plus Death Note: How to Read.

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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2 Responses to Extra: ICv2 posts Bookscan numbers

  1. Jay says:
    April 3, 2008 at 5:50 am

    I don’t think the link goes to the right page… this may be the correct one:

    http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/12330.html

  2. Brigid says:
    April 3, 2008 at 5:56 am

    Fixed! I got up too early today. Thanks, Jay! I’m off to brave Route 93!

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