There’s an interesting wrinkle in the list of the Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for April (4/7/19-5/4/19) provided to ICv2: Big Nate has infiltrated the top six.

Up till now, Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man books have consistently taken the top slots in the list, so with six books out, that’s the top six.  Until this month, when Big Nate: Payback Time! shows up at number 5.  That book came out in mid-March and made number 8 on the March chart as well.

There is one new title on the chart: Camp, by Kayla Miller, which was released on April 23 and debuts at number 19.  This middle grade friends-drama series is a follow-up to Miller’s Click, which just came out last January.

The rest of the chart looks a lot like the March chart.  The second volume of Wings of Fire (adapted from Tui T. Sutherland’s novels) shows up at number 9, down a bit from last month, and the first volume is there at number 17.  Max and the Midknights (by Big Nate creator Lincoln Peirce) slides off the chart, and the Dog Man box set appears at number 20.  Two February releases, Jerry Craft’s New Kid and the fourth Narwhal and Jelly book, make the chart for the third month in a row.  And the usual Raina Telgemeier and Baby-Sitters Club books make their monthly appearances.

In terms of publishers, 15 of the top 20 books are from Graphix and two are from Andrews McMeel.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – April 2019 (4/7/19 - 5/4/19)

Rank

Title

Author

Publisher

1

DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

2

DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

3

DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

4

DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

5

BIG NATE: PAYBACK TIME!

LINCOLN PEIRCE

ANDREWS MCMEEL PUB.

6

DOG MAN HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

7

DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

8

DRAMA

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

9

WINGS OF FIRE GRAPHIC NOVEL VOL. 2: THE LOST HEIR

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

10

SMILE

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

11

SISTERS

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

12

THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 6

GALE GALLIGAN

GRAPHIX

13

PHOEBE & HER UNICORN BOOK 1

DANA SIMPSON

ANDREWS MCMEEL PUB.

14

NEW KID

JERRY CRAFT

HARPERCOLLINS

15

A NARWHAL AND JELLY BOOK VOL. 4: NARWHAL'S OTTER FRIEND HC

BEN CLANTON

TUNDRA BOOKS (NY)

16

GHOSTS

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

17

WINGS OF FIRE GRAPHIC NOVEL VOL. 1: THE DRAGONET PROPHECY

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

18

THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 1

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

19

CAMP

KAYLA MILLER

HOUGHTON M

20

DOG MAN: THE EPIC COLLECTION: FROM THE CREATOR OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

For charts of April graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
April 2019 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
April 2019 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Superhero, Manga, Author Graphic Novels

For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
April 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
April 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
April 2019 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Superhero, Manga, Author Graphic Novels with Actual Numbers

NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more.  NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market.  The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales. Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; we've removed those titles from the ranking above.

For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the "BookScan Top 20 GN Index."