Last week’s Anime Expo was the venue for a number of major announcements from American manga publishers.

These are estimate of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2018.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2018.

Comics and graphic novel sales to comic stores dropped 8.62% in June, returning to the negative sales patterns of the past year-and-a-half after two up months in April and May.

BOOM! Studios has obtained the license for comics based on the Joss Whedon property Firefly, as Dark Horse tells us other Whedon titles continue there.

In a reversal of a multi-decade policy, Diamond Comic Distributors has partnered with Premier publishers and Diamond Select Toys to offer retailers incentives for wholesaling comics to "complementary" businesses using one of its 44-Pocket Comic Spinner racks.

Dark Horse Comics and Netflix have signed a deal for a line of comics and graphic novels set in the smash hit Stranger Things universe.

These are estimate of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during May 2018.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during May 2018.

This week’s home entertainment releases include the action-packed Pacific Rim: Uprising, a Steven Soderbergh film that was shot entirely on a iPhone, and my favorite film of the year so far, a wickedly dark satire from the creator of Veep that is based on a French graphic novel about the power struggle following the death of Stalin, plus the final season of the sci-fi series Dark Matter, and a new high-def restoration of the classic Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes.