Fantagraphics has announced that it will be publishing the complete Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz.

We recently chatted with DC Comics President and Publisher Paul Levitz to catch up on topics of interest. In this first part of our two-part interview, we talk about the state of the market, the manga explosion, and DC's recent run of sell-outs.

Cable entrepreneurs Nick Psaltos and Kim Bangash are planning to launch an all-horror cable network, which would debut on Halloween 2004.

For the first time graphic novels took a prominent position at the nation's largest non-profit literary festival, New York is Book Country, which turned Fifth Avenue into a giant bookshop.

After over a week of conflicting announcements, Image will continue to publish George R.R. Martin's The Hedge Knight, produced by Roaring Studios.

Pre-registrations are up for the Diamond Comic Distributors/Alliance Game Distributors' 2003 Retailer Summit, which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas on November 3-4.

El Cazador # , CrossGen Entertainment's 'fastest selling issue ever,' is currently sold out from Diamond. The second print run will feature a new cover.

The New York Times published a major article on DC's Vertigo line in its Monday, September 15th, business section.

Steven Bates of Bookery Fantasy in Fairborn, Ohio saw retailer Gene Smith's comments on mass merchant competition and voices his agreement:

Although Federal Judge J. Owen Forrester did not grant White Wolf a temporary restraining order against Sony Pictures, he did call for an expedited 30-day discovery period prior to a hearing on a preliminary injunction.