Preposterously, this is the nineteenth annual report of something that is hard to exactly perceive and understand: the size and shape of the sales of graphic novels and trade paperbacks through the book store market, as seen through the prism of NPD BookScan. Welcome to the 2022 Bookscan analysis – and it’s a doozy: the craziest, largest growth that we have ever seen in the Top 750 – with more comics material sold in 2021 than 20 combined. “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”