The Indie Comics & Graphic Works Bestseller List

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Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending January 22, 2012.

1. Habibi
Craig Thompson, Pantheon, $35, 9780375424144

2. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
Richard Dawkins, Dave McKean (Illus.), Free Press, $29.99, 9781439192818

3. Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $35, 9780375423949

4. Hark! A Vagrant
Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly, $19.95, 9781770460607

5. The Best American Comics
Alison Bechdel (Ed.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25, 9780547333625

6. Feynman
Jim Ottaviani, Leland Myrick (Illus.), First Second, $29.99, 9781596432598

7. The Adventures of TinTin in the Land of the Soviets
Hergé, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316003742

8. Watchmen
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, $19.99, 9780930289232

9. The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye
Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore (Illus.), Image Comics, $9.99, 9781582406725

10. The Adventures of Hergé
Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental, Drawn & Quarterly, $19.95, 9781770460591

11. Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes From 50 Celebrated Cartoonists!
Chris Duffy (Ed.), First Second, $18.99, 9781596436008

12. Blabber, Blabber, Blabber Everything, Volume 1
Lynda Barry, Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95, 9781770460522

13. Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works
Jonathan Gruber, Nathan Schreiber (Illus.), Hill & Wang, $13.95, 9780809053971

14. The Walking Dead Volume 2: Miles Behind Us
Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard (Illus.), Image Comics, $14.99, 9781582407753

15. Larry in Wonderland: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
Stephan Pastis, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9781449408176

16. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
R. Crumb, Norton, $25.95, 9780393061024

17. V for Vendetta
Alan Moore, David Lloyd (Illus.), Vertigo, $19.99, 9781401208417

18. Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & the New Land
Paul Buhle (Ed.), Abrams, $29.95, 9780810997493

19. The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $35, 9780679406419

20. The Death-Ray
Daniel Clowes, Drawn & Quarterly, $19.95, 9781770460515

21. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
Bryan Lee O’Malley, Oni Press, $11.99, 9781932664089

22. Scientific Progress Goes “Boink”: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Bill Watterson, Andrews McMeel, $12.99, 9780836218787

23. Logicomix
Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Bloomsbury, $22.95, 9781596914520

24. The Sandman, Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
Neil Gaiman, Vertigo, $19.99, 9781401225759

25. DC Comics: The Ultimate Character Guide
Brandon T. Snider, DK Publishing, $16.99, 9780756682613