Image Comics has announced that the third Powers trade paperback will be published in August. The first trade paperback is now the best-selling Image Central trade paperback ever.

The winners of the Harvey Awards, the comic awards named for famed creator Harvey Kurtzman, were announced at the Pittsburgh Comicon last weekend.

Our top-of-the-home-page story on Yu Gi Oh yesterday brought in this response from Bill Eckman of Classic Cards & Comics in Castle Rock, Colorado who says it can't be hot in his store if he doesn't have any.

Marvel's recent announcement of exclusive deals with Joseph Michael Stracynski (JMS) and Kevin Smith could be seen as a response to DC Comics forging similarly exclusive deals with Brian Azzarello, Warren Ellis, and Mike Carey.

An Official ICv2 Release . ICv2, the news and information site for pop culture retailers, has launched a Classified Ads area of the ICv2.com Website. ICv2 Classified Ads can be found via a link on the left of every page, which leads users to a directory of classified ad categories.

The first Atomeka publication, due out in July, is Maximum Force , a multi-layered parody of a superhero team that combines Elliott's twisted sensibility with Simon Bisley's go-for-the-jugular painterly style.

Comic and graphic novel orders (dollars) surged again for May 2002, continuing the torrid growth that began in the fourth quarter of 2001.

Initial raw orders to Diamond US from pop culture stores were lower on 16 of the top 25 titles in May than they were in April . Six titles were up, and three were new. Of the six that were up, two were Spider-Man and two were Batman titles.

Estimated quantities for initial orders on graphic novels shipping in May 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.

Estimated quantities for initial orders on comics shipping in May 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.