Wanted Graphic Novel Lands on ICV2 Top Trades List

These charts of the ICv2 Top 10 Superhero and Genre graphic novels reflect sales in all channels in Q3 of 2008. These charts are based on interviews with retailers and distributors, information provided by Nielsen BookScan (in the form of monthly Top 20 lists (for example see “Bookscan’s Top 20 Graphic Novels for August 2008) of graphic novels sold in bookstores, and ICv2’s own analysis of information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors on graphic novel sales in comic stores. READ MORE.

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Graphic Novels are Hollywood's Newest Gold Mine

Superman Leaped 40 years' worth of tall buildings on the printed page before he landed his first feature film, in 1978. In 2003, Wesley Gibson, the cubicle-dwelling assassin in Mark Millar's nihilist graphic novel Wanted, had producers circling before his first issue even went to print. Millar's work is unlikely source material for a big-budget movie; one of his obscenely named villains is made of fecal matter from 666 evildoers, including Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Dahmer. Nevertheless, Wanted is now a glossy summer action movie starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, directed by new-to-big-studio-movies Russian Timur Bekmambetov. READ MORE.

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Top Cow Appearances April 26-27

Top Cow will be represented at two public events this weekend!

If you're in Calgary, Alberta, come check us out at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo! Witchblade artist Stjepan Sejic and Publisher Filip Sablik will be on hand with some cool merchandise, freebies and signings!



If you're in the Los Angeles, CA area, come by the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the UCLA campus and say hi to VP - Sales and Marketing Mel Caylo and Associate Editor Joshua Cozine. They'll have a variety of trade paperbacks, books and graphic novels for sale.



See you this weekend!

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