The book topped the American Library Association’s list of banned and challenged books in 2021.

For the first time since 2018, one of the Dog Man books didn't make the chart.

This month's top two properties both had strong sales, and that makes a big difference to the bottom line.

This top franchise chart originally appeared in ICv2's Internal Correspondence #101.

These are estimates of graphic novel sales by Diamond Comic Distributors U.S. to comic specialty stores during the full year of 2021.

For the second month in a row, Dav Pilkey gets a dozen titles on the chart, and Jerry Craft's New Kid returns after an absence of several months.

Year over year sales are down for every title on the chart.

With the release of a new Cat Kid book, Dav Pilkey's Dog Man and Cat Kid books now take up more than half the chart.

December 2021 sales were flat compared to the previous year, but that’s in the context of a huge increase in 2019.

Prepared exclusively for our Pro subscribers, this chart of the ICv2 Top 10 Graphic Novel Franchises in four categories reflects sales in all trade channels for Summer 2021.