Google has chosen Scott McCloud ( Understanding Comics ) to explain the Internet giant’s new browser.

An ICv2 Release. ICv2 launched a regular online previews feature today, with an exclusive eleven page preview of David B.’s Nocturnal Conspiracies.

Mongoose Publishing announced that the company would become a “sister company” to Rebellion.

In Part One, we talk about the state of the graphic novel market given current economic conditions and the response to First Second's releases from spring '08.

In Part Two, we talk about First Second’s bestselling books of all time, and the top prospects for Fall 2008 and for Spring 2009.

In Part Three, we continue discussing First Second's 2009 publishing plans (including its first manhwa title), plus the company's efforts to target the education and library markets.

Omnitoons will produce manga-style promotional comics for mobile devices based on Paramount Pictures films.

This week, Bennett talks about good comic stores, the Virgin shutdown, Secret Invasion, and “the most naked Batman comic ever.”

Image comics will release Liquid City , a 312-page color anthology of comics primarily from Southeast Asia , in November.

Bluewater Productions has announced that it will team with famed genre filmmaker Roger Corman to produce comics, including a re-franchising of the Sci Fi series Black Scorpion .