These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2016.

Illumination Entertainment, which scored its biggest hit on this weekend a year ago with the $115 million debut of Minions , hit the jackpot again as The Secret Life of Pets bowed well above expectations with $103.2 million.

After a slumping five-month period at the beginning of 2016 in which comics and graphic novel sales to comic stores went down over 5%.

Exciting new graphic novels are driving sales in the book channel, the publisher dynamics are changing, and TV brought a long-running series back into the public eye in June, according to the Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by Nielsen BookScan.

A new heroine will don the suit of the armored avenger this fall as part of the new ongoing Invincible Iron Man series.

In the wake of Civil War II , which fractured the Marvel Universe, the Champions will rise.

Pixar’s Finding Dory is a monster hit here in North America, where it has earned over $380 million in just 18 days and topped the box office for three weeks in a row.

Matt Cave, owner of BatCave Games in Vancouver, WA, recently became a “Bystander” card in Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game.

Marvel has been teasing its upcoming Marvel NOW! launch, and now releases a final image.

Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurgence became the latest high-priced Hollywood sequel to fall short at the box office, opening below expectations with an estimated $41 million.