An informal ICv2 survey of retailers in the Midwest and West has found that last week's tragic events in New York City did have an immediate impact on sales, but a strong weekend brought sales for the week back to near normal levels.

Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac , S quee! , and the Nickelodeon animated series Invader Zim , has won the 2000 International Horror Guild Award for Best Illustrated Narrative for his mini-series I Feel Sick .

DC Comics announced today that the Adventures of Superman #596 would be returnable.

Like all the other major hits of the summer of 2001, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes will be released on DVD in time for holiday sales this year.

At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Fort Wayne, DC Comics announced that the first issue of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Strikes Again will go on sale on the fifth of December.

Diamond Comic Distributors and sister company Alliance Game Distributors announced today that they were canceling the Baltimore Retailer Summit, which was scheduled for next weekend--September 22-23.

ICv2 had a chance to talk with several Manhattan retailers today and found that they were soldiering on in spite of disruptions in traffic and daily life created by the heinous terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

The initial advance orders to Diamond Comic Distributors for comics shipping in September showed surprising strength this year, with an increase of around 6% vs. August.

DC's Patty Jeres was among the thousands of New Yorkers who got a firsthand eyewitness view of the tragic events that occurred when terrorists piloted two airliners in the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

Estimated quantities for the top 300 comics ordered by pop culture stores for shipping in August, 2001.