As in March, the top seller is Nathan Pyle’s Strange Planet, which is based on his online comic. In March, 15 of the top 20 were manga; in April, it’s 14. Watchmen is on both lists. Snug: A Collection of Comics About Dating Your Best Friend is on both lists.
The differences are interesting, though, as they include titles that were distributed in the book channel but not in comic stores due to the Diamond Comic Distributors shutdown: Batman: Last Knight on Earth, the collected edition of the miniseries by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Glapion (see "‘Batman: Last Knight on Earth’ Collected"), and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club 3, which collects a 12-issues series that’s a sequel to the original book and movie and his previous graphic novel, Fight Club 2 (see "Dark Horse to Publish ‘Fight Club’ Sequel Comic"). Given the popularity of these two franchises, neither is a huge surprise.
There’s also one big omission: Although April is an even-numbered month, VIZ Media did not publish a new volume of My Hero Academia. Volume 23 came out in February, but volume 24 is not scheduled till June and volume 25 till October. The interval between volumes has stretched from two months to four, possibly because VIZ’s releases are catching up with Japan. Nonetheless, eight volumes made the top 20, including the first two volumes, meaning new readers are still discovering the series. And we can see the cohort of other manga that are turning up frequently on the top 20: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Komi Can’t Communicate, Beastars, and that old perennial, One Piece, now up to volume 93 of its run.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – April 2020 (4/5/20 - 5/2/20) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
STRANGE PLANET HC |
NATHAN W. PYLE |
MORROW GIFT |
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2 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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3 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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4 |
BATMAN: LAST KNIGHT ON EARTH HC |
SCOTT SNYDER |
DC COMICS |
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5 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 22 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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6 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 23 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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7 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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8 |
FIGHT CLUB 3 HC |
CHUCK PALAHNIUK |
DARK HORSE COMICS |
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9 |
ONE PIECE VOL. 93 |
EIICHIRO ODA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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10 |
KOMI CAN'T COMMUNICATE VOL. 6 |
TOMOHITO ODA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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11 |
BEASTARS VOL. 1 |
PARU ITAGAKI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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12 |
ATTACK ON TITAN VOL. 30 |
HAJIME ISAYAMA |
KODANSHA COMICS |
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13 |
WATCHMEN (2019 EDITION) |
ALAN MOORE |
DC COMICS |
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14 |
UZUMAKI HC |
JUNJI ITO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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15 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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16 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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17 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 21 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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18 |
NOISE: A GRAPHIC NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY |
KATHLEEN RAYMUNDO |
LIGHTNING SOURCE |
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19 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 5 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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20 |
SNUG: A COLLECTION OF COMICS ABOUT DATING YOUR BEST FRIEND |
CATANA CHETWYND |
ANDREWS MCMEEL |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of April graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
April 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
April 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
April 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
April 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
April 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
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."