Three promising new series debut this month: An Animal Crossing gag manga, a new time-travel story from Rumiko Takahashi, and a slice-of-life comedy about a very capable cat.

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.

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 caught up with VIZ Media VP Kevin Hamric for Manga Week to talk about what’s happening in the manga market, the manga supply chain, and the hot titles.

Works by Junji Ito made up the #2 manga franchise across channels in the U.S. for the Fall 2020 season.

This chart of the ICv2 Top 10 Graphic Novel Franchises in four categories (Kids, Manga, Author, and Superhero) reflects sales in all trade channels for Summer.

These are the unit and dollar sales rankings for August 2020, 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 at stores selling American comics around the world.

We caught up with VIZ Media Vice President Publishing Sales Kevin Hamric to find out how manga’s been doing in the COVID era, and learned about binge reading, box sets, volume 1s, and other recent trends.

Jasco Games will release the Street Fighter Collectible Card Game DLC, the third Universus Deck-Loadable Content set.