From the biggest movie of the summer to Twitter, the June 2017 Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by NPD BookScan displays fascinating trends and influences.

The surprise hit was Jomny Sun’s Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book, based on his @jonnysun Twitter account, where he interacts regularly with his 481,000 followers.  Sun is an architect, designer, engineer, artist, playwright, and comedy writer, with Amazon blurbs from luminaries like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patton Oswalt, and Joss Whedon. His first graphic novel (and first book), from Harper Perennial, hit the June chart at #2, an impressive debut.

Another surprise out of nowhere was My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata, a critics’ darling, which hit the chart at #11 from Seven Seas.

More predictable was the appearance of two Wonder Woman volumes in the top 10 in the wake of the success of the film, which is likely to be the #1 movie of the summer (see "'Wonder Woman' Now Looks Like the #1 Movie of the Summer").  Both are collections of Greg Rucka Rebirth stories.

Another title moved by a movie was Valerian:  The Complete Collection, a new collection of the venerable bande dessinee, benefiting from strong anticipation for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which opens in the U.S. July 21.

BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novels in June 2017

Rank

Title

Author

Publisher

1

TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 13

SUI ISHIDA

VIZ MEDIA

2

EVERYONE'S A ALIEBN WHEN UR A ALIEBN TOO: A BOOK HC

JOMNY SUN

HARPER PERENNIAL

3

MARCH: BOOK ONE

JOHN LEWIS

TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS

4

WONDER WOMAN VOL. 1 (REBIRTH)

GREG RUCKA

DC COMICS

5

SAGA VOL. 7

BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

IMAGE COMICS

6

TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 1

SUI ISHIDA

VIZ MEDIA

7

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

8

WONDER WOMAN VOL. 2 (REBIRTH)

GREG RUCKA

DC COMICS

9

DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 1

AKIRA TORIYAMA

VIZ MEDIA

10

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 8

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

11

MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS

KABI NAGATA

SEVEN SEAS

12

VALERIAN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL. 1 HC

PIERRE CHRISTIN

CINEBOOK LTD

13

BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE DLX. ED. HC

ALAN MOORE

DC COMICS

14

BARUTO VOL. 1

UKYO KODACHI

VIZ MEDIA

15

ONE-PUNCH MAN VOL. 1

ONE

VIZ MEDIA

16

TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 2

SUI ISHIDA

VIZ MEDIA

17

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

18

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 1

AKIRA HIMEKAWA

VIZ MEDIA

19

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: LEGENDARY EDITION VOL. 4

AKIRA HIMEKAWA

VIZ MEDIA

20

BITCH PLANET VOL. 2

KELLY SUE DECONNICK

IMAGE COMICS

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