Checker Books just announced a three-book deal with Rob Liefeld to publish the Alan Moore-scripted runs on Supreme and Youngblood . The first book to be published under the agreement will be Supreme: The Story of the Year , which is due in November and will retail for $26.95.

Checker Book Publishing Group of Dayton, Ohio has appointed Midpoint Trade Books as its distributor to the U.S. book trade effective immediately.

Right smack dab in the middle of what has become a remarkable year for comic books, Wizardworld Chicago was short on major announcements and long on behind-the-scenes maneuvering and positioning.

The ABC Family Channel, which recently added the Beyblade anime series to its lineup, is adding another anime to its Saturday and Sunday morning schedule. The new series is Shinzo, not Slayers as was widely and erroneously reported earlier this month.

Last week brought news of Warner Brothers optioning the rights to the Wonder Twins , as well as the announcement that Jerry (Boom-Boom!!) Bruckheimer was bringing his explosive brand of filmmaking to a film starring the Micronauts

According to IGN Filmforce, Twentieth Century Fox has given the green light for a new film that pits two of its most successful science fiction properties, Aliens and Predator, against each other.

The Punisher has received a green light from Artisan as the second film in its fifteen-property deal with Marvel.

The UPN network has cancelled teen alien drama Roswell . The show has been cancelled twice before and managed to garner enough fan support to come back from the dead both times, but this time the situation looks more critical.

The recently published Blue Sky: The Art of Computer Animation should provide pop culture retailers with a solid opportunity to profit from the surprising success of Ice Age .

Today's Hollywood Reporter announced that special effects maven turned director Pitof (Jean-Christophe Comar) will make his English language debut as the director of Catwoman for Warner Brothers.