UPDATE: This chart was updated to show Dark Tower: The Long Road Home as if all four covers were counted as a single title (putting it at #8). The Killing Joke Special Ed. HC was the #20 title before that update. For the fifth straight month Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen topped BookScan’s list of the Top 20 graphic novels sold in bookstores

Thirty-five year comic industry veteran George Perez will appear as a Guest of Honor at the 2009 New York Comic Con in support of the Hero Initiative, which provides a financial safety net for comic creators.

In Part One of this two-part interview, Leford talks about the current status at ADV; ADV’s changing strategy; some new anime announcements; his assessment of the anime market in North America, and the changing licensing environment.

This week, Steve Bennett discusses trends in cartoons on TV.

Part Four of an interview with Gonzalo Ferreyra, Viz Media Vice President of Sales and Product Marketing.

Board games and the big launch for Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition kept the game category steady to up a little in the hobby channel in the second quarter.

Digital Manga Inc. has launched the industry’s first publisher-sponsored manga rental site.

Viz Media has designated Konami as the exclusive manufacturer and distributor of the Blue Dragon TCG in North America .

We had some loose ends from our initial article on Book Expo America, held last weekend in Los Angeles, that it’s time to wrap up.

Although Naruto remains the strongest property on the Bookscan Top 20 Graphic Novels for May, with both of the top two spots, Viz’s Vampire Knight also had three volumes in the top 20.