Dav Pilkey Archives

Game publisher Mindscape and artist Dav Pilkey announced a brand new title featuring the character Dog Man, as console players will be getting Dog Man: Mission Impawsible The game will take the popular graphic novel characters and throw them into a 2D side-scrolling world, where you will em-bark on a thrilling adventure totally original from the[...]

It is directed by Peter Hastings and is based on the best-selling book series by Dav Pilkey Below is the poster for the film as well. Credit Universal Dog Man Synopsis Part dog, part man, all hero From DreamWorks Animation—creators of the beloved blockbuster franchises Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Boss Baby—comes the canine-crime-fighting[...]

The two companies have partnered with creator Dav Pilkey to bring his bestselling graphic novel of the same name to life in the form of a video game, as you'll see characters and settings from the series in an interactive narrative adventure No official release date was given for the game beyond the fact we'll[...]

And maybe it's a suggestion that graphic novel publishers need to slowly shift emphasis from Middle-Grade titles to Young Adult books as 2023 saw YA sales as a whole increase 6.2%, while sales in the juvenile category remain lackluster, withasles down 2.9% in fiction and off 3.4% in nonfiction. But nevertheless, the Dog Man comic book[...]

Failing a cataclysmic cultural quake – or the book being delayed a month – Dog Man: Big Jim Begins, the thirteenth volume by Dav Pilkey will be published on the 3rd of December by the biggest comics publisher in the USA, Scholastic, ahead of the animated movie out in January Which might drive sales even[...]

Which is where I came across the nugget that Dav Pilkey, author of the best selling English language comic books in the world, Dog Man and Cat Kid, is to donate 50,000 books to support Little Free Libraries project, across all fifty states of the USA. Focusing on literary-underserved communities, Dog Ma publisher Scholastic, and the[...]

But for now, it's Dav Pilkey, the most popular comic book creator in America, and creator of the two bestselling superhero comic books in the world, the Dog Man and the Cat Kid Comic Club graphic novel series, selling five million and three million respectively, with Cat Kid specifically designed to teach kids about comic[...]

Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers is the new Dog Man spinoff graphic novel by Dav Pilkey and is set to be one of the best-selling comic books in the English language – but will probably come second this year to Dog Man himself! Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers will be published by Scholastic Graphix on[...]

Dav Pilkey is launching his latest Dog Man comic book in three weeks-and-change On the 28th of March, Scholastic Graphix will release Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea, the eleventh graphic novel in the series that already has more than 60 million copies in print That's an average of six million copies for[...]

Alongside the just-announced Dog Man: Twenty-Thousand Fleas Under The Sea, next year Scholastic will publish a 26-year anniversary edition of the first Captain Underpants book, The Adventures of Captain Underpants, featuring a bonus 32-page all-new comic mash-up starring Dog Man and Captain Underpants, bringing together two characters in a never-before-told story. Dog Man To Meet Captain Underpants[...]

Alongside the announcement of the eleventh Dog Man graphic novel  by Dav Pilkey, Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea  the best-selling superhero comic book series in the world, publisher Scholastic Graphix has launched a new online portal to encourage kids to create their own comic books. Dav Pilkey Launches Online Epic Comic Club to[...]

Dog Man by Dav Pilkey is the best-selling superhero comic book series in the world It is also the best-selling comic book in the English-speaking world, full stop With print runs of five million copies, that's Asterix numbers Published by Scholastic Graphix, the eleventh book in the series, and the first in two years, is[...]

Comic book properties Dav Pilkey's Dog Man graphic novels published by Scholastic, Dana Simpson's Phoebe and Her Unicorn comic book series published by Universal Click and Andrews McMeel, and John Gallagher's Max Meow middle-grade graphic novel series published by Random House Books for Young Readers are being licensed by Cubles Cubles manufactures sustainable paperboard construction[...]

The second Dog Man spinoff, Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey, just had its second volume, Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives, published by Scholastic Graphix, with a print-run of around two million copies And a third volume has now been announced for the 5th of April, 2022, Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose., in[...]

Dav Pilkey's Dog-Man is the best-selling comic book series in America Each issue of the kids' superhero series gets a five million print run, and they sell out While Marvel Studios has the most successful film franchise, every superhero movie dominating the box office And Dynamite intends to join the two together with a new[...]

1 by Hajime Isayama sold nearly 88,000 copies. Dav Pilkey's Dog-Man Sells Ten Times The Top Manga In US Bookstores But these manga sales were put in perspective compared to kids graphic novels, which topped the charts for all juvenile fiction sold this year in the bookstore market with Dog Man Vol 10: Mothering Heights by Dav[...]

Recently,   the world's best-selling comic book creator, Dav Pilkey and his publisher Scholastic chose to pull their ten-year-old graphic novel Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Caveman From The Future from sale The publisher and creator decided, in the light of changing attitudes, that they were going to pull the Captain Underpants spin-off over the[...]

Dav Pilkey is the creator of the Captain Underpants series of illustrated kids novels, and the comic book spin-offs Dog-Man and Cat-Kid's Comic Club, which have seen first printings of recent volumes hit five million and more, and making him the best-selling comic book creator in the world And now everyone can get a piece[...]

Dav Pilkey was named the most powerful person in comics last year His graphic novel series Dog Man gets five million printings of each volume Just as Dog Man spun out of his illustrated novels Captain Underpants, so it is to get its own spinoff and a new graphic novel series Cat Kid Comic Club[...]

Dav Pilkey at the St Louis County Library in 2018. Dav Pilkey (New Entry) The best-selling comic creator in the USA, with his comic series Dog Man now beating out his semi-comic book series Captain Underpants, 2019 saw him dominate the best-seller charts with both selling in their millions – Dog Man had a five million[...]

The Top Ten Kids Graphic Novels in the book channel in August 2019, based on NPD BookScan data below, tells quite a story. At number one, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey had recorded and reported sales of almost 450,000 The second item on the list at less than a tenth of[...]

Following a 3 million copy print run for August's most recent entry in the popular Dog Man comic series by superstar creator Dav Pilkey, comic book publisher Scholastic has announced a 5 million copy print run for Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild, threatening to usher in a new speculator boom like the 1990s which could[...]

But when hardcore comic book fans, a group colloquially known as comicbronies, debate the intricacies of their favorite pastime, perhaps should they be asking questions like: Could Dog Man lift Thor's hammer? What's stronger? A punch from Superman or Dog Man's bite? Who would win in a fight? Batman or Dog Man? The answer to[...]

Starring Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch as two fourth graders who hypnotize their principal (Ed Helms) into dressing up in his underpants and acting like a superhero in a shocking display of bullying, the film is based on the series of books by Dav Pilkey Nick Kroll will voice the animated film's bad guy, Professor[...]

Jeff Smith's Bone has now been published for ten years in colour from Scholastic, who created their imprint Graphix especially to publish the book. Now in February, they will be publishing a ten year "tribute edition" of the first collection, Out Of Boneville which will contain an extra 48 pages including Bone-inspired comics and art from[...]