The new Retailers Guide to Graphic Novels points out some of the very different sort of graphic novels that helped spur sales this summer, a wide variety of releases ranging from manga titles like Naruto and Fruits Basket, to Marvel's Halo Graphic Novel, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, Watchmen and Lost Girls, and Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man. Vaughan, whose Pride of Baghdad has already established itself as one of the major fall graphic novel releases, is the subject of the 'Writer's Spotlight' section of the new Guide.
The new Guide also includes a Holiday Gift Guide, which includes some of the 2006 releases that are perfectly suited for holiday sales, and for the first time ICv2 rates 'The Top Twenty American Genre Comics' based on sales in both the bookstore and direct market.
The Guide is available free to retailers (send an email to DViau@icv2.com) and to others for $10 plus postage and handling via the ICv2 online store (click here).