Michele Kraus of Gamer's Conclave in Mandeville, Louisiana has been following the news on Hurricane Katrina and the industry response and shares her situation.

Columbia Pictures has moved up the debut of Ghost Rider from August 4th to July 14th, 2006.

Longtime comic retailer/dealer Kirby Gee of Crescent City Comics & Cards in New Orleans has been located.

Tom Ray of groundZero in Mobile, Alabama has a store in a Katrina-affected area and has seen his business severely affected.

Alias Enterprises has announced that producer David Tischman ( Damn Nation ) has acquired the screen rights to the comic book series Deal With the Devil.

A full week after the passage of Hurricane Katrina the fate of Gulf Coast comic book and game retailers remains as murky as the waters that submerged much of the Crescent City.

Timothy Davis of Alternate Reality in Chicago, Illinois was moved by the Katrina devastation to suggest industry-wide support from the comic industry.

A Paid Advertisement . New York Comic-Con is signing up new exhibitors at a pace considerably ahead of company projections when plans for the new show were announced little more than two months ago.

Reed Expo has announced that over half the exhibit space for the New York Comic-Con next February, 90,000 square feet on Level 1 at the Javits Center, has sold.

As the world watches the continuing disaster and human tragedy unfold along America's Gulf Coast, the first news from retailer friends is trickling out, and the first pledges of support for relief from the industry are being made.