Diamond Comic Distributors is offering retailers a chance to enlarge their offerings of magazines that is virtually without risk. Retailers who sign up for the six-month program get a free, expandable, modular rack that rolls on coasters and is delivered to their stores without any freight costs by UPS.

Scott Rosenberg's Platinum Studios announced that MGM has agreed to produce a television series for the Showtime cable network based on the award-winning series of Jeremiah graphic novels written and drawn by Belgian author Hermann Huppen.

The Ghost World movie, which is based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, earned a very respectable $128,000 in its second weekend of release on just eight screens.

Next month, Top Shelf Productions will be soliciting a unique Alan Moore product -- a performance CD in which Moore takes listeners on a tour of the checkered past of London's Highbury district, providing the juicy details and strange tidbits that are never mentioned in conventional guidebooks.

On Monday, July 30, The Late Show with David Letterman featured Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank of American Movie fame on a mission to record the San Diego Comic-Con International.

Wizards of the Coast, the world's leading manufacturer of collectible card games, has announced plans for the release of its Harry Potter trading card game, which will debut in August.

Tim Burton's 're-imagining' of Planet of the Apes reinvigorated the flagging summer box office trends by taking in almost $70 million during its first three days.

Diamond Select's latest acquisition is a license with Sandy Frank Productions for Battle of the Planets , aka Gatchaman, Eagle Riders , and G-Force . Under this new agreement Diamond Select gets the rights to develop action figures, resin statues, calendars, wall scrolls, building block figures under 3 inches

Company profile for Inkworks, manufacturer of entertainment trading cards.

Diamond Select has released more information about its license with Marvel comics. In addition to the already announced calendars, posters, and lithographs, Diamond Select will also create statues, busts, bookends, and snowglobes.

Dart Flipcards announced a trio of non-sports card issues that are all scheduled to be released by the end of the year.

DC Direct has a huge slate of products on tap for 2002, which will make it unlikely that any challenge to DC's dominance in this increasingly important product area will succeed.