Two very different cartoon series are debuting on U.S. cable networks in the next few days, but both series could be important to specialty retailers. First up is the American-created Invader ZIM.

The major work in one of Europe's most popular comic series will finally be available in English in July-- Brusel, the acknowledged masterwork in the Cities of the Fantastic series.

Dark Horse Comics has announced the acquisition of the license to publish the graphic novel adaptation of the Disney Studio's major animation project for this summer-- Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Diamond Comic Distributors is joining forces with its sister company-- Alliance Game Distributors--to host three regional 'Retailer Summits' in the fall of this year.

Sometimes the pop culture products industry gets pretty wild and woolly, and last week was such a time, with three stories in different venues providing some diversion from our regularly scheduled programming.

Since the implementation of Marvel's 'no overprint' policy, some retailers that were shorted on initial shipments were not able to get replacement copies.

The Fox Network has postponed the live action series based on The Tick comic and cartoon until the start of the fall TV season. The series is currently in production and all thirteen episodes for the first season will be completed by the May 2 deadline for the Writer's Guild (WGA) strike.

Score will follow up Dragonball Z , its strong initial entry into the Collectible Card Games arena with a CCG based on another very hot property, the popular Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series.

Warren Ellis who writes Transmetropolitan and Planetary for DC is working with video game developer Interplay to create a new action/adventure game, Hostile Waters : Antaeus Rising .

Twentieth Century Fox has just finished holding preview screenings in Los Angeles and Las Vegas of From Hell , the film version of the Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell graphic novel recounting of the Jack the Ripper saga.