Younger readers embrace graphic novels like never before When the Graphix imprint launched in 2005 “there were still mixed feelings about graphic novels,” Saylor says. That’s not surprising.

Since 2019, sales of graphic novels in the U.S. have doubled to 35 million books a year, a number behind only general fiction and romance. Subscribe to the Design newsletter.

Fans of hard-hitting and enjoyable graphic novels will find something to love in 2024's best like Young Hag, in Utero, Where the Body Was and Medea.

Originality came from all sorts of graphic novels as well as Image, where ex-DC vet Geoff Johns unveiled his Ghost Machine imprint, filled with some of the best talents in the comic book biz.