Comments on: 300 on Bestseller list

By: erik

erik — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:06:22 +0000

Fuck that ugly movie

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Mar. 30, 2007: Drama queens bickering

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:13:09 +0000

[...] Speaking of the latter… well, let’s get our ducks in a row first. You’ll recall that earlier this week, I’d noticed that Dark Horse had declared Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s 300 to be “the #1 best selling graphic novel in the nation,” looked around for evidence, found none and questioned whether they were simply ignoring what was otherwise being hailed as “the #1 best selling graphic novel in the nation,” the thirteenth volume of Masashi Kishimoto’s insanely popular fight comic, Naruto. I noted at the time that it was entirely possible that BookScan was telling a different story than the other principal source for such information, USA Today, and indeed this turned out to be the case: In the comments section of The Beat, Del Rey Manga associate publisher Dallas Middaugh noted: [...]

By: Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:37:25 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, Jamie… and you weren’t being harsh.

By: Kevin Huxford

Kevin Huxford — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:12:25 +0000

Jamie, don’t be too harsh on anyone for forgetting that 300 was serialized in comic book format first. The director of the movie based on it forgot just that, with Zach Snyder being quoted as having “pledged to make Watchmen ‘Hollywood’s first R-rated comic book movie.’” (quote found at JK Parkin’s blog entry: http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/03/29/300-pg-13-be-damned). Naturally, JK points out how many other comic book movies that is forgetting, as well.

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Mar. 29, 2007: Anime made me hate bush

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:56:15 +0000

[...] A correction: According to Del Rey Manga associate publisher Dallas Middaugh, Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s 300 did in fact manage to briefly surge past Naruto Vol. 13 on Bookscan’s graphic-novel charts a few weeks back, as he notes in the comments thread to a post on The Beat. My apologies to Dark Horse. That said, I have to wonder at Heidi MacDonald’s just-linked post, where she attempts to beat me over the head with the fact that 300 landed at #18 on Publishers Weekly’s hardcover bestsellers list. And you can use this to measure against the sales of a paperback… how, exactly? [...]

By: Jamie Coville

Jamie Coville — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:47:47 +0000

300 was serialized in standard comic books first. I bought them and still have them. It was reformatted for the hardcover later.

By: Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:21:01 +0000

But aren’t manga volumes more rightly to be considered as “trades or colllections” instead of original graphic novels? They are reprinting serialized content whereas 300 came out as a stand alone as I recall.

Is this even a distinction?

By: The Beat

The Beat — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:41:20 +0000

See Dallas’s point above. For that week of Bookscan it was #1. It also made the PW bestsellers list. Spin? Sure. But I’ve noted here many times that Naruto is the most popular comic in America. 300’s success doesn’t take away from that.

By: Joe Williams

Joe Williams — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:29:34 +0000

Um… but doesn’t Dirk actually have a good point in calling out a BS distinction between GNs and manga? Isn’t it the same as a TV sitcom that will declare itself the “Best New Comedy on Tuesday Night?” I don’t think he’s knocking the success of “300″ but merely pointing out shameless and factually incorrect PR hype.

By: Dirk Deppey

Dirk Deppey — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:59:04 +0000

I don't have Bookscan numbers to go by (though you'll note that I did allow that the Bookscan numbers might be different). USA Today had 300 behind Naruto both last week and this week. Right now, last week's chart is still up on the webpage version, while this week's version is already up in the PDF version.

By: Tina Anderson

Tina Anderson — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:26:55 +0000

Wow. I brought 300 today, the reissue was new at my comic shop; my son was reading Naruto as I was checking out. Sadly, I didn’t buy him a copy of Naruto. :(

I guess I’m one of those ‘last week’ types. ^^v

By: Dallas Middaugh

Dallas Middaugh — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:43:54 +0000

For the week ending 3/18/07, 300 was in fact the number one graphic novel on the Bookscan bestseller list. For the week ending 3/25, it has slipped to number two behind Naruto 13.