Dark Horse has announced the November launch of the Nexus Archives series with the release of the first volume on November 16th.

In Part 3 of our interview with Paul Levitz, we talk about the toy business, DC's Crisis editorial event, and ask whether the current spate of comics-based movies is a bubble.

In Part 2 of our 2005 interview with Paul Levitz, we discuss the ongoing restructuring of DC's sales and marketing staff, and ask whether graphic novels will ever pass periodicals.

In Part 1 of our 2005 interview with Paul Levitz, we talk about the setting for the meeting (the San Diego Comic-Con), the state of the comics market in 2005, and DC's place in the fastest-growing parts of that market.

IDW Publishing's Ted Adams told ICv2 about his company's plans to publish trade paperback collections of the Dreamwave Transformers volumes which are no longer available.

DK Publishing's Jay Henry (Director of Marketing) and Bess Braswell (Marketing Manager) told ICv2 about DK's plans to publish the Marvel Comics Encyclopedia.

This week is Bates' final column, as he moves on to a new position with Diamond Comic Distributors.

Although the Walt Disney Company has been involved in graphic novel publishing for years through its foreign subsidiaries, it wasn't until 2005 that Disney-owned house Hyperion Books began publishing the W.I.T.C.H. graphic novels here in the States.

White Wolf announced that Mage: The Awakening , solicited at 320 pages, will actually come in at 400 pages.

Priscilla Craddock of Comic Book World, Inc. in Florence, Kentucky saw the suggestions by Dave Autzen of Reader's World and Jim Crocker of Modern Myths on ordering variants and disagrees.