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Monstress Tops Amazon's Best Comics And Graphic Novels Of 2016
Amazon has named its top twenty comics and graphic novels of 2016, with the overall winner being Monstress Vol 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, published by Image Comics.
Monstress is also the only comic book to appear on the Top 100 Books Of 2016 Amazon list – though it is also joined by the prose novella Normal by Warren Ellis.
Here is the full top twenty, in order of sales.
Moebius Library: The World of Edena
by Moebius
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1
by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze
March: Book Three
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Monstress Volume 1: Awakening
by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
Paper Girls Volume 1
by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
Vision Vol. 1: Little Worse Than A Man
by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta
Dark Night: A True Batman Story
by Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso
Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties
by Neil Gaiman and Gabriel Bá
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and IraqOct 4, 2016
by Sarah Glidden
Clean Room Vol. 1: Immaculate Conception
by Gail Simone
Princess Jellyfish 1
by Akiko Higashimura
Hot Dog Taste Test
by Lisa Hanawalt
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
by Tom Hart
Black Magick Volume 1: Awakening
by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott
Faith Volume 1: Hollywood and Vine
by Jody Houser and Francis Portela
How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide
by Ron Padgett and Jason Novak
The Birth of Kitaro
by Shigeru Mizuki and Zack Davisson
Are there any commonalities? Well clearly being good is one, having a female lead helps and calling the first volume of your series "Awakening" seems to work too…