These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world.

These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world.

U.S. manga sales, which have been on fire throughout the Covid period, hit a new benchmark the week ending August 7, when new manga releases were three of the bestselling (print) books in the U.S.

This month’s top picks include a new dragon-hunting series from Bleach creator Tite Kubo, a love story about a transgender teen, and a man traversing a zombie-infested landscape… with a cat.

Manga readers are still doing deep dives into older series, but new Superhero and Author titles popped up in July.

Superheroes were the weakest category, and manga the strongest, according to the charts with actual sales.

For the first time in four months, there's something other than manga in the top 20 Adult Graphic Novels in the book channel.

There is a key difference between this chart and the last three Julys: the latest volume of The Adventure Zone is not in the top slot.

The June Superhero chart is remarkable in that there are so many new titles.

We look at the year-over-year trends for Superhero and Author graphic novels, and at a size comparison of manga vs. the other categories.