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.
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BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novels in June 2017 |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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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 |
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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."
