>Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas, the fifth book in the Dog Man series, sold three million copies >Action Comics 1000, one of the biggest DC books in years, sold 0.5 million copies
Are DC and Marvel even relevant players in American comics anymore? The Dork Diaries books for tween girls sell millions of comics. The Adventure Zone sold more copies of their graphic novel than anything by the "Big Two", and Raina Telgemeier is churning out smash hit after smash hit. But even the best-selling stuff out of the "big two" doesn't come close to Graphix.
is DC in that scholastic book sale thing that schools do? That's what sells books. The schools shill it for kickbacks
David Anderson
they fly off the shelves at Barnes & Nobles
Asher James
To be fair Dog Man is a sales anomaly. No comic has been as successful in America since the 90s.
But yes that is why DC is doing all this rebranding and reshuffling and cancelling shit. They want to get into the children's market that has exploded in the wake of Smile.
Colton Carter
It's sort of amazing that DC/Marvel are so desperate for this audience yet seemingly have no idea how to make a kids book.
Aaron Hernandez
Dav Pilkey created the most iconic superhero of the last 20 years. DC and Marvel can't compete with that.
I think they've stopped trying to write for kids They're trying to get 20 year olds to read their stuff
Zachary Walker
This must be some usage of "iconic" I've never been familiar with.
Jonathan Green
There haven't been a lot of superheroes created in the last twenty years.
Won't be true either way after Sony's R-rated One Punch Man live action set in America comes out.
Easton Lee
Name a superhero created in the late-90s or later whose books sold more than Captain Underpants.
Hunter Edwards
As of early 2019, the series includes 12 books and 10 spin-offs, and won a Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Award on April 4, 2006. As of 2016, the series had been translated into over 30 languages, with more than 80 million books sold worldwide, including over 50 million in the United States. DreamWorks Animation acquired rights to the series to make an animated feature film adaptation, which was released on June 2, 2017 to positive reviews.
>The Captain Underpants books were reported by the American Library Association to be the most frequently challenged books in the year 2012. Dav Pilkey also mentioned this in his website. According to the American Library Association, Pilkey's Captain Underpants series was explicitly banned in some schools for insensitivity and being unsuited to age group, as well as encouraging children to disobey authority.
>The American Library Association stated in a release by the National Coalition Against Censorship that "This year's #1 banned book, Captain Underpants... is the gift that keeps on giving. Why? Because these popular, silly books are read by parents, with their children, all over the country. The toilet humor makes parents roll their eyes and kids giggle. The absurdity of banning books in order to attack perceived moral problems is exemplified by this year's winner."
>In October 2015, the 12th book received controversy due to a reference to Harold being gay. Some elementary schools have banned the book for this reason.
It's pretty iconic
Kevin Ramirez
this is dogshit, "comics" for teachers and parents
Kevin Sullivan
they keep trying... dc is rebranding and introducing dc kids
Kevin Russell
>2012 It is pretty amazing how timeless Captain Underpants has proven to be. It was in the late 90s that I was reading these books and more than ten years later they're the #1 most banned book and five years after that it gets a movie and the spinoff OGNs are selling millions of copies. The books are just magic to read though so it makes sense.
Xavier Richardson
Dog Man is pretty unambiguously a comic, no scare quotes required.
I don't see how it's relevant that parents are buying the books for their kids. My mom bought be Animorphs books as a kid, and those were real sales and I really read and enjoyed them.
>The Captain Underpants books were reported by the American Library Association to be the most frequently challenged books in the year 2012. Dav Pilkey also mentioned this in his website. According to the American Library Association, Pilkey's Captain Underpants series was explicitly banned in some schools for insensitivity and being unsuited to age group, as well as encouraging children to disobey authority. These comics are some of the tamest shit ever. That's wild.
Colton Morris
It's not a comic. it's a graphic novel. For it to be a comic, the story has to be told through drawings. If the book has writing and much of the characters action are told through writing instead of drawings, then that is a graphic novel.
Nathaniel Diaz
children book like that are literally they only reason why the "comic book" industry is continuing to grow.
Jacob Lewis
Is it just me or did Captain Underpants kinda fall off the map for a couple of years? I think Pilkey was making some small movie with his family or something. Did he ever finish that movie?
Robert Young
the fact that some anons are angry and defensive about this doing so well is fucking sad
Lincoln Harris
I don´t care if it´s doing well I just think it´s stupid that people count it as a classic comic book. it should be regarded as a childrens picture book
Tyler Bennett
Why would anyone read comics at this point when the movies do everything the comics do but in a way that a general audience can actually understand?
Christian Phillips
The whole thing is told through panels and word balloons though. And terms like graphic novel and comic book have become almost entirely interchangeable at this point anyway.
Josiah Morales
They make fun of it in one of the books. Harold and George end up in an alternate universe and their alternate school library actively promotes books banned from their original school library, including a book called "Mommy Has Two Heathers", which is itself a parody of a banned book called "Heather Has Two Mommies".
Kayden Hall
Right after book 7, the second Booger Boy book, right? Dav's dad started dying and he took time off to spend time and help out. But, the dude took a long time to kick it, so the hiatus lasted long enough for an elementary student to graduate highschool before they heard he was back.
And the books after that are a bit different, they start following a continuous plotline and Dav gets a real bug up his ass about the treatment of kids with ADD and ADHD.
Grayson Lewis
Spoken like a true normie who thinks comics are just capes.
>be l'il Petey >be torn between good and evil because your "dad" is a supervillain, and your mentor is a hero
What is l'il Petey's endgame?
Owen Martin
>I think Pilkey was making some small movie with his family or something. Did he ever finish that movie? Yeah. A lot of people on Yea Forums were saying it would be huge and make more than Wonder Woman. Obviously that didn't happen
