Diamond has added three more small publishers to its book division: IDW, Guardians of Order, and Alternative Comics.

Diamond Select is offering the first ever action figures based on the ground-breaking anime series, Battle of the Planets.

Comic and graphic novel orders (dollars) were up 5% in July vs. 2001, continuing the trend that began in the second half of last year. July orders were up 1% over June, with almost all the gains coming from comics,

Initial piece orders from comic stores on the top comic titles in July were buoyed by the addition of two first issues that both sold well over 100,000 copies, Transformers Armada #1 and Battle of the Planets #1, at the number one and number three positions respectively.

Diamond Comic Distributors announced today the formation of a new division, Diamond Book Distributors, the goal of which will be to make a wide selection of graphic novels, anime, gaming, collectible toys, and other pop-culture merchandise available to the mainstream retail book market.

Robert Thumith of Enterprise Comics see a basic inequity between the way Upper Deck is distributing Yu-Gi-Oh in the hobby and in the mass-market.

Diamond Comic Distributors has announced an agreement with Astonish Comics naming Diamond as the exclusive distributor of the publisher's books and comics to the mainstream book trade.

An ICv2 release. ICv2, with the support of sponsors Dark Horse Comics and Diamond Comic Distributors, is launching its 'Better Than Ever' promotion,

There is a definite 'blast from the past' aspect to the top 10 list of comic books these days, and that trend is also seen in movies, DVDs, and toys.

Titan Books, the English publisher that secured the rights to publish the Transformers comics produced by Marvel in the 1980s, has just announced the release of Dark Designs , the first Titan collection featuring the original Marvel Generation 2 Transformers series.