Top Selling Trades In 2016
2016 was another year where trade-paperback/graphic novels were dominated by Image Comics, and Saga in particular. Writer Brian K. Vaughan’s new series, Paper Girls also did VERY well, placing second in the number sold and fourth in the dollars sold. Another notable addition this year was Oni’s Rick & Morty. Volume 1 was the highest non-Image book sold and was sixth in dollars sold. At the $45 price tag, the Incal continues to ride it’s wave of popularity, second only to Saga Vol 6 in the number of dollars sold. Fantagraphics’ Patience by Dan Clowes did good numbers along with Matt Furies’s Boy’s Club collection. Marvel had some success with the first collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates‘ Black Panther run, and the original Civil War collection did respectable sales. Not on these charts, Tom King’s Sheriff of Babylon, Vision and Omega Men collections all did quite well and would have placed higher if they had been released earlier in the calendar year. DC’s collection sales were tepid throughout 2016, but that may change in 2017 with the release of the first Rebirth collections
By Quantity Sold
1. Saga Tp Vol 6 - Image Comics
2. Paper Girls Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
3. Saga Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
4. Saga Tp Vol 5 - Image Comics
5. Monstress Tp Vol 1- Image Comics
6. Wicked & Divine Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
7. Tokyo Ghost Tp Vol 1- Image Comics
8. Saga Tp Vol 2 - Image Comics
9. Bitch Planet Tp Vol 1- Image Comics
10. Low Tp Vol 1- Image Comics
11. East Of West Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
12. Saga Tp Vol 3 - Image Comics
13. Wicked & Divine Tp Vol 3 - Image Comics
14. Saga Tp Vol 4 - Image Comics
15. Descender Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
16. Rick & Morty Tp Vol 1 - ONI Press
17. Sex Criminals Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
18. East Of West Tp Vol 5 - Image Comics
19. Lumberjanes Tp Vol 1 - Boom
20. Wicked & Divine Tp Vol 2 - Image Comics
21. Low Tp Vol 2 - Image Comics
22. Incal Hc - Humanoids
23. Black Panther Tp Book 1 - Marvel Comics
24. Sex Criminals Tp Vol 3 - Image Comics
25. Patience Hc - Fantagraphics
By Dollar Amount
1. Saga Tp Vol 6 - Image Comics
2. Incal Hc - Humanoids
3. Saga Tp Vol 5 - Image Comics
4. Paper Girls Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
5. Patience Hc - Fantagraphics
6. Rick & Morty Tp Vol 1 - Oni Press
7. Saga Tp Vol 2 - Image Comics
8. Saga Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
9. Saga Tp Vol 3 - Image Comics
10. Wicked & Divine Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
11. Wicked & Divine Tp Vol 3 - Image Comics
12. Saga Tp Vol 4 - Image Comics
13. Monstress Tp - Image Comics
14. Tokyo Ghost Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
15. Bitch Planet Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
16. East Of West Tp Vol 5 - Image Comics
17. Black Panther Tp Book 1 - Marvel Comics
18. Lumberjanes Tp Vol 1 - Boom
19. Wicked & Divine Tp Vol 2 - Image Comics
20. Low Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
21. East Of West Tp Vol 1 - Image Comics
22. Civil War Tp - Marvel Comics
23. Low Tp Vol 2 - Image Comics
24. Sex Criminals Tp Vol 3 - Image Comics
25. Boys Club Gn - Fantagraphics