Focus on the best comic book sales of January 25, 2023

Big commercial winner of the year 2022, “Le Monde sans fin” still starts 2023 at the top of the ranking of the best comic book sales and continues its journey within the “Top 20 GfK/Weekly Books » where we find it in 5^e position, in front (as far as the representatives of the 9^e art) manga “Jujutsu Kaisen” T18 (6^e) and “Mashle” T18 (13^e). “Revolution” T2 and “Anatole Latuile” T16 join the “Top 20 BD”, as do some promotional editions from the beginning of the year…

It is indeed a great classic at the start of the year and during the winter sales period to see the appearance of numerous albums distributed at low prices by publishers; which sell all the more in large quantities when they are great classics or other very popular titles.

This is how at the start of 2023 (best wishes to all: health, joy and happiness!) are embedded, obviously temporarily, in the “Top 20 BD”: “The Smurfs” T30 (6^e) and T32 (8^e), “Lucky Luke” T14 (12^e) and 31 (16^e), as well as “Boule et Bill” T10 (18^e).

Another great classic of the classification, the presence in number of “Mortell Adèle”, of which we find another six collections in this first prize list of the year dissected on BDZoom.com.

Always so classic, the bestsellers year-end are still at the top a few weeks later. Thus – in addition to the quasi-historical phenomenon of the “Endless World” – we find “Blake and Mortimer” T29, “The Arab of the Future” T6 and “Mortell Adèle” T19 of the 2^e at the 4^e square. “Capital and ideology” (9^e), “The Old Furnaces” T7 (10^e) and “The Sisters” T17 (17^e) are also once again in the game.

Beyond these recurring phenomena, we especially enjoy discovering novelties in the “Top 20 BD”.

This is the case of “Revolution T2: Equality – book 1” developed with four hands, both in text and drawings, by Florent Grouazel and Younn Locard. Set 16 months after the events recounted in the first part of this historical fresco, multi-awarded (Prix Château de Cheverny for historical comics 2019 and Fauve d’or for the best album of Angoulême 2020, among others) and already sold at 80,000 copies, this new chapter, just as remarkably documented as the previous one, focuses on the period of elaboration of the first constitution, while the revolutionary fire is still smoldering under the ashes and the destinies of the characters are intertwined during days as hectic as they are exciting. Initially planned as a trilogy (“liberty”, “equality”, “fraternity”), the abundance of material led the authors to split “Equality” into two books. “Book 2” will focus on the storming of the Tuileries on August 10, 1792 and the events that ensued. Printed in 48,000 copies by Actes Sud/L’An 2, the album takes over the 5^e position in the ranking.

Second (and last) entry of the “Top 20 BD”, the 16^e collection (printed in 50,000 copies by BD Kids editions) of the (my)adventures of the energetic, disheveled schoolboy Anatole Latuile, the most daring of heroes with more than a million copies of albums to his credit, joins the winners in 7^e position. In “Beasts and Beasts” by Olivier Muller and Anne Didier, illustrated by Clément Devaux, Mr. Auzaguet decides to ban any object from school that makes reference to the Startruc favorite series. Anatole and his friends will have to redouble their imaginations to have fun…

Laurent Turpin

Top 20 comics (copyright GfK/Weekly Books) from January 9 to 15, 2023

RANKING			SERIES	SECURITIES	AUTHORS	EDITORS
1st			The endless world		Christophe Blain, Jean-Marc Jancovici	DARGAUD
2nd			Blake and Mortimer T29	Eight Hours in Berlin	Antoine Aubin, José-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc fromental	BLAKE AND MORTIMER
3rd			The Arab of the future T6	Youth in the Middle East, 1994-2011	Riad Sattouf	ALLARY
4th			Deadly Adele T19	Face of Berk!	Diane Le Feyer, Mr Tan	BAYARD YOUTH
5th		new	Revolution T2	Equality – book 1	Florent Grouazel, Younn Locard	ACTES SOUTH/YEAR 2
6th			The Smurfs T32 ed. special	The Smurfs and Wizarding Love	Jeroen De Coninck, Alain Jost, Thierry Culliford	THE LOMBARD
7th		new	Anatole Latuile T16	Beasts and nonsense	Clement Devaux, Anne Didier, Olivier Muller	KIDS COMICS
8th			The Smurfs T30 ed. special	The Smurfs of Order	Jeroen De Coninck, Alain Jost, Thierry Culliford	THE LOMBARD
9th			Capital and ideology		Benjamin Adam, Claire Allet (after Thomas Piketti)	THE THRESHOLD – THE COMIC MAGAZINE
10th			The Old Furnaces T7	Hot like the climate	Paul Cauuet, Wilfrid Lupano	DARGAUD
11th			Deadly Adele T1	All this will end badly	Miss Prickly, Mr Tan	BAYARD YOUTH
12th			Lucky Luke T14 ed. special	Oklahoma Rush	Morris, Rene Goscinny	DUPUIS
13th			Lucky Luke T10 (The Adventures of… according to Morris)	Rantanplan Arch	Achde, Jul	LUCKY COMICS
14th			Deadly Adele T4	I don’t like love	Miss Prickly, Mr Tan	BAYARD YOUTH
15th			Deadly Adele T2	Hell is other people	Miss Prickly, Mr Tan	BAYARD YOUTH
16th			Lucky Luke T31 ed. special	Tortillas for the Daltons	Morris, Rene Goscinny	DUPUIS
17th			The Sisters T17	In your dreams !	William Maury, Christophe Cazenove	BAMBOO
18th			Ball and Bill T10	Bill, model dog	roba	DUPUIS
19th			Deadly Adele T8	parents for sale	Diane Le Feyer, Mr Tan	GLOBUBBLE
20th			Deadly Adele T3	It’s not my fault !	Miss Prickly, Mr Tan	BAYARD YOUTH