Bob Cosner of Bob's Baseball Cards, Comics, and Gaming in Des Moines, Iowa saw our coverage of the McFarlane Toys exclusive for Spencer's and sees a new distribution plan from McFarlane.

Lee Hester of Lee's Comics in San Mateo, California sent us this comment on his recent experience at a local high school book fair, which contains some valuable lessons for retailers looking at ways to build their businesses.

The Wall Street Journal did a major piece on product placement in comics at the Big Two comic publishers on Tuesday, including two new deals to place cars in comic stories.

Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation have named Larry Lieberman as the companies' new Chief Marketing Officer.

According to The Hollywood Reporter , a new reality show is being shopped that would find a successor to Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Papercutz has announced its August releases, and there are several graphic novel products with strong commercial potential.

A healthy market for comic periodicals has driven a solid increase in the over-all market for comics and graphic novels in comic stores for both March and Q1 2006.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2006.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2006.

This week, Bennett looks at the publishing events being mounted by the Big Two comic publishers this summer.