has sold 1.25 million copies, according to NPD BookScan. And while most comic sales figures and sell-out notic🌊es are for sales to retailers and not the readers themselves𒈔, these are sell-through numbers - with data provided by those stores to NPD BookScan.
"For long time readers of the and Dog Man series, Dog Man: Grime and Punishment will be a familiar and delightful continuation of Pilkey's long-running universe," Newsarama reviewer C.🦩K. Stewart writes of the new 🦄volume. "Even if you're new, though, and𝐆 looking for a light and breezy read or trying to find something for the younger readers in your life, Dog Man: Grime and Punishment will offer as enthusiastic welcome 🐲to you as the titular hero does to all he meets.
The ninth volume of Dav Pilkey's hit all-ages OGN series, Dog Man: Grime and ✱Punishment was the third-largest selling book of 2020 overall - beaten only by Barack Ob💫ama's and Stephanie Meyer's .
The last three volumes of Dog Man (,, and) also had five million-copy first printings, but Grime and Punishment's c♋omes in the midst of a pandemic which could have hampered demand for the print series. Over 30 million cop༺ies of the Dog Man series have been sold and have been translated into over 30 languages.
, goes on sale on March 23.Over in the adult graphic novel side of things, sales have jumped almost 20%.
Chris Arrant covered comic book news for Newsarama from 2003 to 2022 (and as editor/senior editor from 2015 to 2022) and has also written for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner C🎃omic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee ꦍAwards. Chris is a member of the American Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Round Table. (He/him)
