This article contains a chart showing the top 300 comic titles ordered from Diamond North America based on Diamond's reported title indexes and external title data, and interpolation of the remaining numbers.

Company profile for Bandai Entertainment, Inc., manufacturer of popular Japanese anime videos and DVDs.

Nelvana, the Canadian company that packaged Cardcaptors for the WB network, has licensed the anime series Medabot: Techno Robot Battle Adventures from Kodansha. Nelvana has acquired near-worldwide distribution and merchandising rights for the 50-episode series.

Maybe it's because the specialty market is counter-cyclical, or maybe it's because it is product driven and there are lots of good products in the offing, but according to retailers ICv2 heard from, the pulse of the industry is strong right now, at least judging from the talk at the DC RRP.

Fox's X-Men grabbed the most nominations for the 27th annual Saturn Awards presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films. The first motion picture featuring Marvel's mutant supergroup earned over $150 million at the box office and a whopping ten Saturn nominations.

Company profile for California-based distributor carrying a wide range of imported Japanese anime and kaiju products.

Company profile for Kenzer and Company, publisher of fantasy based gaming products and comic books.

In the lead article in the Arts Section of the April 4, 2001 N.Y. Times , Neil Strauss celebrates the sad and brilliant art of cartoonist Chris Ware ( Acme Library , Jimmy Corrigan ). Strauss's lengthy article is headlined 'Creating Literature, One Comic Book at a Time.'

Retailers looking for bargains on toy close-outs can now check out KB Toys' online wholesale toy operation. The wholesale online service shares fulfillment and customer service with KB's regular online consumer site.

April 4, 2001. In a conference call with the press today, Marvel President Bill Jemas didn't mince words when defending his 'no overprint policy' In response to a question on the topic from ICv2, he responded, 'It's sort of an IQ test for comic retailers. You can count the digits in their IQ based on their enthusiastic reaction to the 'no overprints policy.''

The Top 10 Cool lists for February, 2001 have just gone up on ICv2, and our comments are below. These lists are compiled from actual sales submitted by retailers.

A story in the Monterey Herald on March 25, 2001 linked roleplaying games to two young marines that have been charged with attempted murder.