Michael I. Silberkeit, the chairman of Archie Comic Publications, died on August 5th in New York City at the age of 76.

This October Electronic Arts will release Dead Space , a third-person, science fiction action video game.

Ronald Perelman has agreed to pay $80 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from the time when he controlled Marvel.

The Sci Fi Channel has announced that it will air a two-hour Battlestar Galactica prequel movie in 2009.

This week, Steve Bennett looks to India for the next big thing in comics.

Gen Con has listed the speakers and panelists for Gen Con Trade Day on its Website, and the line-up is impressive.

Mattel’s newest Barbie doll, dressed as DC Comics’ Black Canary, has at least one conservative group labeling the doll as “filth.”

The Walt Disney Company has acquired the rights to Monster Attack Network graphic novel.

Jiro Taniguchi’s Harukana Machi-e will be published in English as A Distant Neighborhood by Fanfare/Ponent Mon in 2009.

Universal and producer Marc Platt ( Wanted ) have optioned Steven Grant’s graphic novel 2 Guns .