ICv2 is launching its 'Grow with Shojo' promotion today, which includes free point of purchase materials for retailers, a display contest with major prizes, and information on how to market the fastest-growing products.

ICv2's 'Grow with Shojo' Display Contest is a great way for retailers to expand merchandising to female consumers--a rapidly growing consumer segment in pop culture stores.

This is a listing of all of the great stuff available to the store that wins our Shojo Display Contest. The total value of these prizes is over $3,100, and it could all be yours.

WizKids, the company that created Mage Knight, the first collectible miniatures game announced at GenCon in Milwaukee that it would be producing a Battletech collectible miniatures game for release in the summer of 2002.

WizKids has revealed more details about Mage Knight: Dungeons , a major expansion to the Mage Knight collectible miniatures game which will help bolster first quarter sales when it ships in January of 2002. The Dungeons Starter Set includes pre-painted treasure chests as well as new Mage Knight figures.

Canadian publisher Guardians of Order (Sailor Moon RPG Tenchi Muyo RPG, El-Hazard RPG ) has announced that it will publish a superhero roleplaying game entitled Silver Age Sentinels in the summer of 2002.

Comic orders from specialty stores were generally down for August, with an 8% dollar drop from July.

A down and dirty survey of leading retailers in the New York and Los Angeles areas indicates that Daniel Clowes Ghost World graphic novel is getting a major boost from the release of the Ghost World film in those two cities.

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

Next month, Top Shelf Productions will be soliciting a unique Alan Moore product -- a performance CD in which Moore takes listeners on a tour of the checkered past of London's Highbury district, providing the juicy details and strange tidbits that are never mentioned in conventional guidebooks.