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Nostalgia for the 1990s is having a moment right now, if wide-legged jeans, Lisa Frank’s Crocs collaboration and the original Gap fragrances selling for hundreds of dollars on eBay are any indication.
But when the graphic novel remake of Ann M. Martin‘s book Claudia and the Bad Joke was the best-selling kids book in Canada earlier this month, it was time for bookworm elder millennials and gen-Xers to feel their hearts flutter with nostalgia. The original, part of the wildly popular The Baby-Sitters Club series, was published in 1988.
It’s not a one-off. As Scholastic points out, all of the graphic novel adaptations of the original books have been on best-seller lists.
The novels have taken off with a new generation of readers, which experts have noted steers the popular comic-style genre to a more female audience. Meanwhile, fans of the original series, which first started publishing in 1986 and chronicled the lives of a fictional group of 12-year-old babysitters, get to experience the books all over again.
Superfans like 41-year-old Erika Dole of Ottawa never stopped.
