Dav Pilkey Archives

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[...]