16th May 2025


Data source Date range 2025 Weeks 1-18


Children’s comics & graphic novels


1


Big Jim Begins Dav Pilkey


Scholastic, 9781338896459 2


Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder 75,514 Dav Pilkey


3


Scholastic, 9780702340291 Bunny vs Monkey: Bunny...


Jamie Smart 4


DFB Phoenix, 9781788453073 Dog Man


Dav Pilkey 5


Scholastic, 9781407140391 Mothering Heights


Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702313493 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20


Grime and Punishment Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702310676


42,753


Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702330025


Bunny vs Monkey: The Great Big... Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453080


The Adventures of Dog Man 2... Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407186603


For Whom the Ball Rolls Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702303678


Brawl of the Wild Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407191942


A Tale of Two Kitties Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407186672


38,284 35,568 34,899 26,396 25,741 25,449


Bunny vs Monkey: The Impossible... Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453127


Bunny vs Monkey Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788451772


23,030 22,831


InvestiGators: Class Action John Patrick Green Macmillan Children’s, 9781035015443


Fetch-22 Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702306877


Lord of the Fleas Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407192161


Dog Man and Cat Kid Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407192123


22,405 21,668 21,169 18,689


Bunny vs Monkey and the Human... Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788451956


16,792


Bunny vs Monkey and the League... Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788452304


17,388 26 Charts


Bunny vs Monkey vs Dog Man: Jamie Smart and Dav Pilkey dominate


G


iven their domin- ance of the bestseller charts, you might be forgiven for thinking that Jamie Smart


and Dav Pilkey are the only illustra- tors producing graphic novels right now. While they do take up a lot of space at the top of NielsenIQ BookData’s Children’s Comic Strip Fiction and Graphic Novels cate- gory, they are far from being the only ones. Comics and graphic novels hit


an all-time high in 2024, with 4,201 different ISBNs selling just under 2.6 million books and delivering total value sales of £20.2m, numbers that are up considerably on 2023: volume grew 25.7% while value rose 24%.


Compare that with 10 years


previously, when only 271,930 books were sold in this category – with 2014 seeing a quarter of its sales coming from Tintin alone, while Asterix and the other resi- dents of Gaul supplied another 20% – to a total of £2m. Both brands are still doing relatively well, though Hergé has seen his sales drop 46.1% to 38,057 copies sold in 2024, while René Goscinny has seen a decline of 40.6% over the last decade to 31,866 copies. If Asterix and Tintin are no


longer in command of comics and graphic novels, then who is? This year has seen a good start


for the category, with sales of £8.9m up to the end of April – 30.1% more than the same period


Smart and Pilkey account for 71.6% of the category’s sales – a much bigger proportion than Tintin and Asterix managed a decade ago


43,253 54,020 60,401 92,183


Charts Market Spotlight


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