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Thomas Kid graphic novel sell a criminal record £ 20 million in the UK in 2024 , thanks to Dav Pilkey , Jamie Smart and Alice Oseman … but David Walliams failed to make an impact
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London Book Fair , kicking off today , has a greater graphical novel and laughable book presence than ever , and it ’s not hard to see why . Publishers and presses at theIPG Conferenceat the end of last month see Wilson peach about a quail children ’s book of account grocery in the UK as birth rate go down , cost - of - life pressures uprise , and kids ' literacy level decline . Kate Wilsonof book and graphic novel publisher Nosy Crow state that some book are more good in getting children and vernal people reading , noting the increasing popularity of graphic novels . " These are very visually literate children . We ’re find that what is puzzle out are shorter books with greater illustrative support . "
Nielsen ’s BookScan reportsthat the biggest sub - category in kids issue in the UK was in Children ’s Comic Strip Fiction & Graphic Novels , increase sales from 2023 by 18.3 % transcription full sale of £ 19.8 m , four times the £ 5 million it was getting back in 2019 . Kids graphic novel mainstaysDav PilkeyofDog ManandJamie SmartofBunny vs Monkeysaw their UK sale up 41 % and 74 and their fuse £ 14.4 million sales event were responsible for for 75 % of the Kid graphic novel sphere . Add the £ 1.3 million of sales fromAlice Oseman’sHeartstopperseries earned , and that would be 81 % . WhileJohn Patrick Green’sInvestiGatorsand spin - offAgents of S.U.I.Tseries , earned a million in sale as well , with the four generator claiming a whopping 85 % of the $ 20 million of UK kids graphical novel sales between them .
David Walliams ' introduction into the graphic novel entry did n’t work as well as his other kids Book though . In the last decade , Walliams never had fewer than two deed of conveyance take in over £ 1 million through BookScan , and never less than three sell over 100,000 comics . That was not the case in 2024 , with no titles in the Top 50 for the first metre in eleven years . His first graphical novel withAdam Stower , Astrochimpfrom HC Children’sstill sell 90,984 copies and brought in £ 714,554 , so it ’s not on the dot poulet feed . Just maybe not enough to make the variety of impact that other more established graphic novel creators can .
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