The 2002 Eisner Award Winners were announced at the recent San Diego Comic-Con, and the love was spread around. Four titles won multiple awards: 100 Bullets with three, and Eightball, Dork , and Akira with two each.

The lawyer for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has filed an appeal to the highest criminal court in Texas in the obscenity conviction of Jesus Castillo, manager of a Dallas comic store.

The New York Times did a feature story on Green Lantern #154 in its August 13th edition, beginning above the fold on the front page of the 'Arts' section. The story included a full-size color page from the book.

In this second part of our two-part interview, we talk about anthologies, the market research that showed Viz Shonen Jump would sell here and why, and whether Yu Gi Oh will be bigger than Pokemon.

Daniel McAbee of The Tangled Web in Spartanburg, South Carolina was prompted by our article on Matt Ragone's departure from Marvel and Bill Rosemann's comment to let us know that he thinks both of them are stand up guys.

DC Direct is moving beyond just comic book fans by with offerings that feature Justice League Animated and Super Friends versions of the DC heroes that should have a strong appeal to animation aficionados.

Playmates Toys had a small booth at this year's San Diego Comic-Con International where the company showed off a resin Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Leonardo Figure...

We're working our way through all the news from San Diego, but we've got a bunch of bits and pieces left over that aren't going to get into print unless we group them all together here. So without further ado, here's our News and Notes from San Diego 2002...

CrossGen Comics has signed an agreement with fantasy author R.A. Salvatore to bring his acclaimed fantasy series Demon Wars to comic book form.

For 2003 Dark Horse has lined up a number of exciting licensed projects that are going to be much more than mere comic book versions of screen stories.