1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days.
Jeff Kinney.
Abrams/Amulet, $13.95 ISBN 978-0-8109-8391-5
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Straw.
Jeff Kinney.
Abrams/Amulet, $12.95 ISBN 978-0-8109-7068-7
3. The Book of Genesis Illustrated.
R. Crumb..
W.W. Norton, $24.95 ISBN 978-0-393-06102-4
W.w. Norton has more than 120,000 copies in print of R. Crumb’s The Book of Genesis Illustrated
4. Vampire Knight, Volume 8.
Matsuri Hino.
Viz Media, $8.99 ISBN 978-1-4215-3073-2
5. Warriors: Ravenpaw’s Path: Shattered Peace, Volume 1.
Erin Hunter and James Barry
HarperCollins/Tokyopop, $6.99. ISBN978-0-061-68865-2
HarperCollins and Tokyopop teamed to adapt Warriors, Erin Hunter’s bestselling prose series about a clan of wild cats, into comics. Tokyopop’s Marco Pavia says the three different Warriors graphic novel series have sold “hundreds of thousands of copies. It’s hugely popular.”
6. Naruto, Volume 46.
Mashashi Kishimoto.
Viz Media, $7.95 ISBN 978-1-4215-3304-9
7. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth.
Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna.
Bloomsbury, $22.95 ISBN 978-1-59691-452-0Bloomsbury’s Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, a graphic bio and intellectual adventure about mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell, has 50,000 copies in print after 4 printings. PW & Time cite it as a best book of 2009.
8. Maximum Ride: The Manga, Volume 2.
James Patterson and Narae Lee..
Yen Press, $10.99 ISBN 978-0-759-5298-7
Yen Press’s Kurt Hassler says Narae Lee’s manga adaptation of James Patterson’s Maximum Ride vol. 2 is in its second printing and the house is working on a manga adaptation of Patterson’s Daniel X for Summer 2010.
9. Full Metal Alchemist, Volume 21.
Hiromu Arakawa.
Viz Media, $9.99 ISBN 978-1-421-53232-5
10. Green Lantern: Agent Orange
Geoff Johns and Philip Tan..
Viz Media, $19.99 ISBN 978-1-401224219
Take Note: Detective Tony Chu, the hero of John Layman and Rob Guillory’s comedy suspense thriller, Chew: Taster’s Choice at #16 from Image, is a cibopath: he gets psychic impressions from stuff he eats and he’s forced to eat very strange stuff to solve crimes!
