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Publisher's Weekly reported the rise in sales of children's graphic novels in 2020 and 2021, with a 123% rise since 2020 in YA graphic novel sales. YA Graphic Novel Sales Rose 123% In Bookstores Between 2020 and 2021 That noted the middle-grade graphic novel success of Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham's Friends series, now getting seven-figure print runs[...]

Shannon Hale has become one of the best-selling comic book writers in the world in recent months Writing Squirrel Girl for Marvel and Wonder Woman for DC Comics, it is her Real Friends series that has taken her comic book sales into the stratosphere with seven-figure print runs. She's also still writing comics, sometimes with her[...]

First Second will publish Friends Forever, the third book in the Real Friends graphic memoir trilogy by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham, in August 2021, and has announced a first printing of one million copies It might however suggest that the kids who Dav Pilkey and Raina Telgemeir sold millions to are growing up –[...]

Shannon Hale has one hell of a placement with Best Friends though, Umbrella Academy has hit since the TV show aired… GUTS by Raina Telgemeier, Scholastic Raina finds her tummy trouble might be more than it first appears to be when she goes back to school and faces some fears. BEST FRIENDS by Shannon Hale[...]