#Invisible emmie cliff notes how to#

So, “The Far Side” is comics, but, no, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” is NOT (but very glad to see that number as a comparative) I literally hand-checked thousands of items against Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature” to say “is this a comic or not?” I defined “comics” like this: either a) it has multiple panels sequentially producing a narrative (those don’t have to be on ONE PAGE, so someone like Mo Williams is certainly comics) OR b) a single image that, taken entirely by itself, provides a complete thought.

The main thing that has to be done in editing the data I am sent is removing all of the things that are not comics. (For points of comparison, try these links to the earlier pieces:

#Invisible emmie cliff notes how to#

I am fairly certain that, if you know how to search the internet, you could probably turn up previously published links from 2003 through 2017, but going forward, you will have to trust my abstract of the charts, rather than seeing the charts themselves. Even the pretty tight “Top 750” as has been our historical practice, will no longer include total sales outside the top 20. However, getting “official” detail has brought a major change this year: NPD Group no longer wants us releasing the complete data in chart form, although we are allowed to quotes numbers. However, I am very excited to say that we are now getting the BookScan reports directly from The NPD Group, with no filter or middleman! This is our second year of doing so.

I had several well trained spies who have, for many years, provided me with access to the BookScan reports at the end of each year. BookScan tracks the specific sales to consumers through its client stores.