ICv2 has posted its graphic novel chart for July, reflecting actual sales through Diamond (i.e. mostly in comics shops, which biases the sample quite a bit). Here’s the list of manga, with the rank on the overall GN chart in parentheses after the manga rank, and total sales in parentheses after the title. It’s a short list this month:
1. (3) Naruto, vol. 30 (5,819)
2. (5) Fruits Basket, vol. 20 (5,328)
3. (20) Berserk, vol. 24 (3,675)
4. (37) Path of the Assassin, vol. 12 (2,704)
5. (54) Tsubasa, vol. 18 (2,293)
6. (64) xxxHoLiC, vol. 12 (2,053)
7. (80) Chibi Vampire, vol. 9 (1,813)
8. (93) In Odd We Trust (1,642)
9. (94) InuYasha, vol. 34 (1,632)
10. (97) Star Trek, vol. 3 (1,592)
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.
