This week, Steve Bennett continues his discussion of the relative virtues of digital comics, and updates us on Jonny Quest .

Michael Chabon has been hired to polish a script for the Pixar/Disney adaptation of ERB’s John Carter of Mars .

Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s manga autobiography, A Drifting Lif e, was the subject of a major review in Wednesday’s Times .

Dark Horse and Image will be joining Marvel and DC in Diamond’s “Final Order Cut-off” program.

Sales of periodical comics and graphic novels were down just 5% in the first quarter of 2009.

For the first time since March of 2001 no comic sold more than 100,000 copies in March of 2009.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2009.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2009.

This month’s Diamond Comic Distributors Publisher Market Share report for comics and magazines shows some interesting contrasts with a year ago.

Jay Bardyla, owner of Happy Harbor Comics in Edmonton, Canada read the recent column by Steve Bennett and responds to Bennett with the following.