Another related group of materials are movies and television shows based on comic books, graphic novels and manga. For Manga, the animated equivalent is called "anime," but there are also live-action versions.
Since movies and television are a more universal pop culture media than comic books right now, the popularity of these movies could help you advertise and attract more users to a graphic novel collection.
Whether or not you would ever separate them out from your DVD collection, it would be worth having a short handout available in the Graphic Novel section and vice versa to help people browse to titles they'd be interested in. Here are a few examples:
The titles displayed above are:300 - American Splendor - AVP: Alien vs. Predator -Batman Begins - Blade - Blade II - Blade Trinity - Fantastic 4 - Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer - Hellboy - Hulk - Popeye - Spider-Man - Spider-Man 2 - Spider-Man 3 - Superman Returns - V for Vendetta - X-Men - X2 - X-Men: The Last Stand
Movies & Television based on Comic Books:
Many popular recent movies and television shows have been based on comic book heroes and more are being planned all the time. There are also many others based on comic book "themes" and "superheroes" like Pixar's The Incredibles and NBC's Heroes.
One way to research these is to look in IMDB's keyword search. It works roughly like a "tagging" subject heading system. Here is the page for all the movies tagged "Based on a Comic book": http://www.imdb.com/keyword/based-on-comic-book/
The list of 422 items includes a few television series and is automatically sorted by rating. Sorting it by year is usually more helpful for collection development and will tell you if any new movies are being planned - which would help predict interest in graphic novel versions.
We have also created a list of popular movies based on graphic novels & comic books that can help you find these through library catalogs: Movies Based on Comic Books & Graphic Novels
Movies & Television based on Manga:
For Manga, the animated version, both for movies and television shows, is known as Anime (these are both very basic translations from Japanese - manga simply means comic in Japanese, Anime simple means animated films)
It is very common for a manga series, when it has gathered enough momentum and has a long series of books with a loyal fan base, to be converted to an anime television series. Fruits Baskets, for instance, has been extremely popular both as a Manga series and as a televise Anime series and both have been translated into English.
The website Anime on DVD has a great listing of Anime based on Manga series:
http://www.animeondvd.com/specials/manga/compcharts.php?view=manga
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