Superheroes were on a roller coaster, manga was on a roll, and it was a good month for Author graphic novels in the book channel.

Once again, it's all manga in the Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for May 2021.

Units of the Top 20 are lower than in April 2021, but sales are still way up from May 2020, May 2019, and May 2018.

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.

We discuss the state of the games market, of hobby game stores, and of Asmodee; and look ahead at what's coming next.

A movie tie-in(!), comics from Instagram, and the impact of digital manga show up among the bestselling graphic novels by category for April.

In this week's column, Rob Salkowitz explains why "the media adaptations of the great younger readers and YA comics classics of this generation are a slow fuse leading to a large pile of dynamite."

James Tynion IV has three titles across two charts, and manga readers are diving deep into series they're starting.

The question for our deeper dive is whether categories other than manga saw robust sales as well.

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.