The Walking Dead is 2010's Top Graphic Novel
by Joseph McCabe
Jan. 6, 2011


Now that the dust from 2010 has settled, it's time to take a hard look at how our favorite genre fared last year. And I'm happy to report that, in the world of comics, it fared pretty damn well.




Our buddy Heidi MacDonald over at The Beat has two pieces of evidence that, when it comes to comics, only the superhero genre comes close to horror.

1.) MacDonald kindly did the statistics on the November sales of indie comics (as reported by icv2.com and Milton Griepp), and found that issues of Buffy, The Walking Dead, True Blood, and Hellboy meant that (with Vampirella [the month's top launch]) the top five non Marvel/DC comics this month all had a supernatural theme to them.

2.) The Beat also reports that in Diamond's year-end sales data, The Walking Dead: Volume 1 "was the #1 graphic novel of the year."





So there you have it, folks.

Couple this with the success of "The Walking Dead" TV show in 2010, and it becomes clear the world is catching on to us in a big way!

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