Diamond Comic Distributors announced that the company is moving its inventory hub from Sparta, Illinois to Memphis, Tennessee effective this November.

An ICv2 release . ICv2 is proud to announce the winners of our First Annual Shojo Display Contest.

Collectible Dreams put together an excellent display that included anime, manga, and some great related merchandise. Note the appeal of shojo merchandise to college women, something that first place winner Planet Comics was also able to exploit.

Second Place Grow with Shojo Display Contest winner All About Comics fielded an extensive display of products that include shojo titles as well as the kind of shonen titles (Ranma, Inu-Yasha, Shadow Lady, etc.) that also appeal to shojo fans.

It isn't enough that the Sooners won the National Championship last year, Planet Comics also managed to win our Grow with Shojo Display Contest.

Marvel's new line of Mature Readers 'Max' comics debuted with the first issue of Alias written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Michael Gaydos.

The key to the development of a market for Viz's shojo titles is the mostly shojo Animerica Extra anthology magazine which has more than doubled its circulation during the past year.

At today's Marvel Press Conference, President and COO Bill Jemas announced that pre-orders for Marvel's October books were the highest (both in dollar and unit terms) since December of 1996, when the numbers were buoyed by the Onslaught crossover with DC.

Tokyopop announced that Paradise Kiss , a highly innovative shojo manga title by Ai Yazawa, will begin appearing the December issue of Tokyopop's shojo anthology magazine, Smile .

Activision has added Fantastic Four and Iron Man to its roster of Marvel properties, which already includes X-Men, Spider-Man and Blade .