Around Former LPC Management
July 23, 2002
The division being created by Cient Distribution Services (CDS) to distribute graphic novels to the book trade is taking shape as the deadline for LPC's client publishers to choose new distribution grows near.
Due Q4
July 23, 2002
Wizards of the Coast announced the upcoming release of a trading card game (TCG) based on the Simpsons television series.
Japanese Company Manages Anime and Manga Artists
July 22, 2002
A.D. Vision, Inc. (ADV), announced a new alliance with Comix Wave Inc., one of Japan's top anime and manga management and production companies.
'Insulting to Retailers'
July 21, 2002
Rich Biedrzycki of Dreamland Comics in Schaumburg, Illinois felt that Top Cow's sales of Battle of the Planets #1 before he received it were 'a slap in the face.'
From the Creator of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
July 21, 2002
Next month Slave Labor (Amaze Ink) will publish Everything Can Be Beaten , a full color storybook written by Jhonen Vasquez (under the nom de plume, Mr. Chancre Scolex) and illustrated by Vasquez (aka Mr. Crab Scrambly).
Available Soon
July 18, 2002
A Paid Advertisement. From Fujishima Kyousuke's hit manga and anime, Oh, My Goddess , comes two awesome new figure assortments, available through Diamond Comic Distributors!
Up from 2001
July 17, 2002
Wizard Entertainment announced that attendance at the recently completed (July 5-7) Wizard World: Chicago was over 40,000. The total for 2002 represents a slight but significant increase over 2001,...
High Art vs. the Comics
July 16, 2002
This week's New Yorker (dated July 22) contains Art Spiegelman's three-page essay about Greg Sadowski's biography of artist Bernard Krigstein (B. Krigstein , from Fantagraphics at $49.95).
Seven Hills Flattened
July 15, 2002
Checker Book Publishing Group of Dayton, Ohio has appointed Midpoint Trade Books as its distributor to the U.S. book trade effective immediately.
Sam Raimi Will Produce Movie Based on Horror Comic
July 15, 2002
Senator International, a Hollywood studio that specializes in moderately budgeted genre pictures, has optioned 30 Days Of Night , a three-issue horror comic series written by Steve Niles and published by IDW.
