At Borders
January 5, 2004
Category management, the retailing strategy brought to book retailer Borders by CEO Gregory Josefowicz, is now being applied to the graphic novel category.
Especially Outreach Marketing
January 5, 2004
Dean Phillips of Krypton Comics attended the recent Diamond-Alliance Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, and shared his experiences, especially as they relate to outreach advertising by comic publishers.
Good For Investors
January 5, 2004
Phil Prasco of Towards 2112 in Channelview, Texas saw our article on former Marvel COO Bill Jemas exercising his options to buy Marvel stock and shared his opinion.
Internet, Catalogue, Two Stores Sold
January 5, 2004
Two flagship FAO Schwartz retail locations have reportedly been sold, along with the Internet and catalogue portions of the business.
'We Helped Make Tokyopop a Hit'
January 5, 2004
Charlie Platt of Anime Mountain in Bend, Oregon saw our recent article on Tokyopop's push into the mass market and offers his view.
Also Wins Best Screenplay
January 5, 2004
American Splendor was named Best Picture by The National Society of Film Critics last weekend.
Headed to the Big Screen
January 5, 2004
Creator Matt Wagner has optioned Grendel to the Warner Brothers Pictures based John Wells Productions.
'King's' Reign Extended Into the New Year
January 4, 2004
The Return of the King dominated the box office for the third straight weekend with an estimated total of $30,750,000.
Releasing 30 Chinese/Korean Manhua Books In '04
January 4, 2004
Silicon Times, a new publisher of Chinese and Korean comics ('manhua') has signed an agreement with Diamond Book Distributors.
And '30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow'
January 4, 2004
IDW Publishing has announced its plans to issue Spookhouse, a collection of Scott Hampton's ghost stories, as well as a new chapter in Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night saga.
Strongest On-Going Series Debut of the Decade
January 4, 2004
Marvel has announced that orders for the Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 have driven the issue's print run past the 200,000 issue mark.
Three Variations
January 4, 2004
NECA has released images of the Crazy 88 Figures from its series of action figures based on Quentin Tarantino's cult hit Kill Bill .
