Today's Variety reports that New Line Cinema has acquired the rights to A History of Violence , a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke that was published by DC's Paradox Press.

Image Comics, including Top Cow and Todd McFarlane Productions, has signed with Diamond Book Distributors for distribution to the book, warehouse club, and mass merchant channels.

Brian Hibbs was prompted by Marvel's recent decision to accept returns on over 100 issues from the past to issue this statement on the topic. '..[T]his is a major step in the right direction.... Nonetheless, the action by Marvel hardly 'solves' the issues between retailers and Marvel.'

Diamond Comic Distributors has posted a list of 110 Marvel comics on its Website which retailers can return for full credit starting on 9/11/02. Since Diamond as a distributor can't authorize returns without Marvel's OK, the decision to allow returns represents a complete turnaround for Marvel.

Slave Labor Graphics and Diamond Book Distribution have reached an agreement naming Diamond as the exclusive U.S. distributor of SLG's English language graphic novels to the bookstore, library, warehouse club, and mass merchandise markets.

Now another NBM graphic novel is getting mainstream publicity, Stephen Heuet's adaptation of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past .

Gutsoon! Entertainment, the U.S. sister company to the Japan-based Coamix Group, has signed a distribution agreement with Diamond Comic Distributors. Diamond will distribute the weekly manga anthology Raijin , Gutsoon's flagship publishing property as well as Fujin , the weekly update on anime and videogames.

Cyberosia Publishing announced today that Peter Milligan and Brett Ewins' Johnny Nemo stories, which originally appeared in the trend-setting UK pop culture magazine Deadline in the late 80s/early 90s, will be collected this fall in a trade paperback that will also include the first new Nemo story in over a decade.

Checker Books just announced a three-book deal with Rob Liefeld to publish the Alan Moore-scripted runs on Supreme and Youngblood . The first book to be published under the agreement will be Supreme: The Story of the Year , which is due in November and will retail for $26.95.

Diamond has announced that it has been named exclusive distributor to the bookstore, library, warehouse club, mass merchandise, and specialty markets in the U.S. by Oni Press and AiT/Planet Lar.