The competition for top comic book artists and writers continues to heat up as Marvel announced the signing of artists Mike Wieringo and Brandon Peterson to exclusive contracts.

Avi Arad provided the most up-to-date information yet released on Marvel's plans for both the big and small screens.

The Kids' WB! will air its first annual 'Turkey Surprise Day' on Saturday, November 29th.

Sales of comic books sagged in October according to our analysis of rankings supplied by Diamond Comic Distributors.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during October 2003.

Two seasoned executives with President of Marvel on their resumes have formed a new company, The Hatchery, to develop kid- and family-oriented intellectual property for media and consumer products.

DC Comics announced, at the Las Vegas Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit, that Judd Winnick will take over as the new writer of Batman for a six issue story arc beginning with issue #625. Art for the Winnick stories will be provided by Wildstorm artist Dustin Ngyuen.

During Marvel's conference call detailing its Q3 financial results, Avi Arad, who heads up Marvel's very successful Hollywood operation, made a number of interesting comments about the Marvel-based films slated for 2004 and beyond.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Tribune Entertainment has sued Marvel Enterprises for $100 million.

Will Alan Moore's Watchmen ever make it to the big screen? There is no doubt that a large portion of comic fandom sincerely hopes that it will -- check out the accompanying faux movie poster created by a zealous Watchmen acolyte.