The Graveyard Book, Volume 1 13 weeks 55 pts.The Walking Dead, Book 1 16 weeks 67 pts.

The Joker: Death Of The Family 16 weeks 72 pts.

The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains 22 weeks 112 pts.

Batman: The Killing Joke 28 weeks 149 pts.

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? 32 weeks 272 pts.

The Top Twelve titles, by weeks charted, followed by the weighted total: Then it’s followed by three books by Neil Gaiman (none of which got much notice in comics circles), which, of course, stay on the list for the remainder of the year. It stays on the list for the remainder of the year. Then, in June, Bryan Lee O’Malley debuts with Seconds , published by Random House. Publisher? Bloomsbury, which doesn’t publish many graphic novels. It’s still up there as I type, never dropping below #5, and topping the charts eleven times. That’s when Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant debuted at #1. Something interesting happened this year… the chart was eclectic and lively, until June. But if you scroll down to the bottom of each list, they have a nice boilerplate.

The Times’ methodology? Guarded, to keep publishers from gaming the system. I make a nice spreadsheet for each list, run totals, make nice pie charts, and present it all here.10 points for #1, 9 for #2… (Yes, aggregate sales can vary wildly for season to season. Each title is weighted in reverse, since the list only ranks titles, with no approximate sales figures.I grab everything dated “2014”, so that I get some time to process it all before the clock tolls, and to keep the goalposts at the same place.Each week covers data from two weeks previous.The New York Times publishes three weekly charts for “graphic books”: Hardcover, Paperback, Manga.

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