The New York Times GRAPHIC NOVEL Best Sellers List. Really? WOW!

I just stumbled upon this. Sorry for the rant. Here I go. 

Someone tell me exactly when did The New York Times add a Comic Book Best Sellers List? Oops, I meant Graphic Novel Best Sellers List? How many parents had I met all of my life with incomes across the board, that HATE that their kids draw 'cause they saw no future in it, let alone like comic books? I've met hordes and hordes of parents like this. I guess comics are acceptable now that these stories make HUGE, galactic sized amounts of money. I love the Graphic Novel set up. The general layouts I've enjoyed are typically adult and gorgeous, with smart storytelling, all of this in a quiet package you can hold in your lap or take to the beach. I'm not talking ereader, I'm talking distasteful, tree killed pages of pulp. (Yes, I'm tactile.)  I even love harsh old skool stories like "Lone Wolf and Cub" or "Hard Boiled" that's rehashed. These books were the pleasure and language of artist and geeks and various combinations of us for decades. I don't buy them too much these days. Money is tight and I've become very selective in my old age of 43.  I'm not impressed by video games like I am with comics.  I find my writing is great and often difficult fun but Figuartive Art is my best friend and my eternal lover.

I dig the graphics of video games but to take a static image and tell EVERYTHING, is hot, it takes craft the way animation used to. Geeks/artists and the occasional scientist I knew have ALWAYS known the pleasure and brilliance of comic books  but for The Times to have a Best Sellers Listing of them  is a shock for me. It must have been around for a few years. Though I read the paper a few times a week, I missed this change. I'm actually pleased in a way but very sad. That means lots of brilliant writing may become less risky, tempered and toned down or spread out thin till it's water down like how Vampire stories are in YA books. Screw it, nearly all mythological animals that can possibly date a human are already drained of substance. I think we have to think of new mythologies to make it interesting again yet, it is something to be in a subway car with a vast mix of folks and hear two twentyish black gals talking about ware-panthers and werewolf combos.  It did plant a huge smile on my face.

Anyhow, dose anyone actually follow the recommendations of the NY Times on Graphic Novels? Of course the list is smart and interesting but who can't find something they like at their local comic shop if they are lucky to still have some around, and go from there?   

I'm just thinking out loud.