Lee Hester of Lee's Comics in San Mateo, California sent us this comment on his recent experience at a local high school book fair, which contains some valuable lessons for retailers looking at ways to build their businesses.

It may be the summer movie with more buzz than any other, despite the planned release of such blockbusters as X-Men: The Last Stand, Superman Returns, Cars, and Mission: Impossible 3, a nd that's because as a title, you can't do much better than Snakes on a Plane .

Mongoose has scheduled the first four releases for its RuneQuest roleplaying game for July.

Long-time X-Men writer Chris Claremont has returned to New York after being hospitalized while attending the Bologna Book Fair in Italy .

Aeon Flux scribe Phil Hay is working on an adaptation of the Dark Horse mini-series R.I.P.D .

Penguin Classics has tapped the talents of some of today's leading graphic artists.

Funrise has secured a license to produce Marvel POGs.

A strong month for floppies continued the 2006 increase in comic sales, with an 8% increase in comic periodical sales.

Duncan Rouleau's graphic novel, The Nightmarist , ships to retail this week.

Avi Arad did not attempt to disguise his pleasure at the prospect of recovering the film rights to the Hulk from Universal.