GFE CEO Steve Geppi told publishers that the first wave of weekly orders coming in as the company resumes operations have been "better numbers than we thought."

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2020.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2020.

Comic sales began to slide in March as the impact of coronavirus shutdowns began to take hold, according to numbers released today by Diamond Comic Distributors.

Now it's time for a deeper dive into the top 20 superhero, manga, and author graphic novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for March.

Overall, manga sales held up the best versus March 2019.

Of the top seven graphic novel publishers in comic stores, five are continuing to release at least some new graphic novel titles into the book channel.

Manga was more prominent than ever on the list of the Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels in the book channel.

Sales look pretty similar to sales in March 2019, a sign that rumors of panic book buying by readers going under safer-at-home orders may be true.

Two more manga publishers have detailed their plans for releases over the next few months, reflecting multiple problems and approaches to solve them.