Darin Erickson runs Amazing Comics & Cards, a 4000-square foot pop culture store in a Target-anchored shopping center in Long Beach, California.

Licensed merchandise based on entertainment and characters accounted for over $25 billion in sales in 1999.

Last week a couple of signs appeared that indicate that the major marketing phenomenon of the late 1990s is showing further signs of erosion.

Jemas will write six issues of a comic that will be known as The Marvel while Peter David will continue to write Captain Marvel , a low circulation title whose life will be extended to compete against The Marvel .

The French comedy Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra has sold over 13.8 million tickets making it the most successful French-made film in 35 years.

Comics2Film reports that Dimension Films has bagged its adaptation of Marvel's Cloak And Dagger.

In addition to listing the amount that LPC owes CDS, PW's article also provided the amounts that LPC listed for its top three unsecured creditors, all publishers of graphic novels.

In the wake of LPC's announcement that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, ICv2 was able to contact most of the comic book publishers that LPC represents to the book trade.

Connecticut-based LPC Group, the largest distributor of graphic novels to the book trade, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Viz Communications announced an ambitious program for releasing both manga and anime based on the Zoids toyline, originally created by Tomy.