Narwhal and Jelly, a graphic novel series by Ben Clayton, hit the Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels in the book channel with two volumes in March.

This reporting on the actual sales reported by NPD BookScan on the Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels helps see the relative sales on the bestsellers, and is also instructive when compared to the sales for other graphic novel subcategories in the book channel, or to sales in the comic store channel.

Compare to the book channel sales of the Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels, which are much smaller, at least in pieces.

Others include a new Henson Storyteller series, Hotel Transylvania news, highlights of kids titles shipping in November, the first Hanazuki graphic novel, and more.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Split surpassed expectations and easily won the weekend box office crown with $40.2 million, while the Vin Diesel-starring action extravaganza The Return of Xander Cage performed as expected ($20 million) and finished in second.

We round up a raft of recent geek movie casting announcements.

The dog days of summer have yet to give way to the rich fall home entertainment harvest, but there are some offerings of interest including a kid-friendly, animated Batman Unlimited feature, plus the first wave of releases from major TV shows like the fantasy series Once Upon a Time and Atlantis , plus The Blacklist , and a trio of NCIS offerings, as well as a new consolidated edition of the compelling Future Diary anime series.

Bourne reboot off to solid start, TDKR still strong.

TDKR scored an easy victory, but the overall box office was down once again.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during February 2011.