Garo , the leading avant garde comics anthology in Japan has begun a unique program of web sales. Garo , whose roots go back to 1964, has been compared with Raw Magazine , since it is an anthology of works by cutting edge cartoonists.

Company profile on Dark Horse Comics, Inc.

Dark Horse has ambitious plans to exploit Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes film with a number of print and merchandise items.

The latest advance film poster featuring Angelina Jolie is surely destined to decorate thousands of bedrooms and dorms throughout the world.

The increasing importance of graphic novels in traditional bookstores can be gauged by the increasing amount of coverage that they are receiving in the trade journal Publisher's Weekly .

Bill Griffith's cult comic hero Zippy the Pinhead is about to make a foray into animation in a series that will appear on the cable network Showtime.

A Louisiana State Court judge dismissed a lawsuit against Natural Born Killers studio Warner Brothers and film director Oliver Stone that had been brought by the family of a convenience store clerk who was paralyzed during a crime spree in 1995.

Although its ability to execute its strategy is yet to be proven, Marvel is in fact pursuing a two-pronged strategy that includes substantially increasing its output of trade paperbacks and graphic novels as well as trying to imrove sales of its periodical comics.

Viz has announced that starting this month their Dragon Ball comics will no longer be edited for content and will carry a '13 and Up' label.

White Wolf has announced that Warren Ellis, the writer of The Authority, Planetary , and Transmetropolitan for DC's Vertigo line has signed on to write for White Wolf's pulp fiction role-playing game, Adventure , which will debut this summer.