Here are the ten most popular stories about graphic novels and comics published on publishersweekly.com in 2016.

10. Viz Expands at Walmart, Gets Into Best Buy
Manga publisher and anime distributor Viz Media has reached separate agreements with two major retail chains: Walmart and Best Buy. With Walmart, Viz struck a deal to significantly expand the number of titles it sells through the chain. Its agreement with Best Buy will see to it that its titles are available, for the first time, in the retailer.

9. The Best Cyberpunk Comics, Part 2
By the 1980s unprecedented possibilities loomed ahead as writers and artists began to imagine a future infested with technology like cybernetic implants, androids, and virtual reality. Novels like William Gibson’s Neuromancer and movies like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, due to their common anti-authority themes, became known as cyberpunk. Comics the world over quickly took to the cyberpunk aesthetic. So boot up, jack in, and enjoy part 2 (read Part 1, Part 3) of what will be a three-part cyberpunk comics list.

8. 10 Great Graphic Novels About Video Games
Comic books and video games are neighbors in the modern entertainment landscape, with considerable fan overlap and many of the same themes and images. But while comics based on games (and vice versa) are easy to find, comic books about games and gaming are few and far between. But with gaming becoming more ubiquitous it will increasingly find itself the subject of comics.

7. Comixology launches Subscription Service
Comixology, Amazon’s digital comics marketplace, is launching Comixology Unlimited, a subscription service offering access to thousands of comics form independent publishers—there are no DC or Marvel titles--for $5.99 per month.

6. Comics Lure Literary Authors
Since the graphic novel boom began over a decade ago, many well-known authors have dabbled in writing comics—or adapting their works to comics. Recently authors Margaret Atwood, Chuck Palahniuk, and William Gibson have all written (or announced) original comics projects in the hope of gaining new fans—and sales.

5. The legacy of Watchmen in 13 Comics
Thirty years ago, the first issue of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen hit shelves, forever altering the comics landscape with its deconstruction of the superhero genre. Its critical and commercial success ushered in a new era of storytelling, one that took the classic good-vs.-evil model and exposed it to real-world cynicism and sophistication. Today, nearly all superhero stories owe at least a little to the lauded miniseries, while many could be considered direct thematic descendants.

4. San Diego Comic-Con 2016: Graphic Novels, Movies and Margaret Atwood
For all the talk of movies and TV shows, there were plenty of books being discussed at San Diego Comic-Con International.

3. Second Book Added to DC Super Hero Girls Graphic Novel Series
Response to the announcement of the summer 2016 publication of DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis, the first graphic novel in the DC Super Hero Girls line of books and merchandise for teenage girls, was so strong that the publisher added a second volume.

2. The Best Cyberpunk Comics, Part 1
By the 1980s, unprecedented possibilities loomed ahead as writers and artists began to imagine a future infested with technology like cybernetic implants, androids, and virtual reality. Novels like William Gibson’s Neuromancer and movies like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, due to their common anti-authority themes, became known as cyberpunk. Comics the world over quickly took to the cyberpunk aesthetic. So boot up, jack in, and enjoy part one of our three-part cyberpunk comics list (read Part 2 and Part 3).

1. Oni Press Unveils Five Comics From Open Submission Policy
Looking to attract a broader range of talent, last year indie comics publisher Oni Press announced it was opening up its content submission process to the public: For a short time, any writer, artist, or colorist could pitch a project. Over 2,500 creators answered the call.