Lucasfilm, the studio owned by Star Wars creator George Lucas, has 'quietly' started up a new unit, Lucasfilm Animation, in order to gain a share of the computer-generated animation business.

ABC late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live ran a taped segment Wednesday, May 7 in which co-host Patton Oswalt visited Los Angeles comic retailer Bill Liebowitz at his Melrose Avenue Golden Apple store.

Mark Welch of Comic Cubicle in Williamsburg, Virginia had this response on the content of some Free Comic Book Day giveaways.

We interviewed Chris Powell, General Manager of the seven-store Lone Star Comics and Science Fiction chain in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on the second Free Comic Book Day.

New company Valar Project, Inc. has announced the Book of Erotic Fantasy , an Open Gaming License RPG, for release in October.

Pioneer Entertainment, one of the top anime packagers and distributors in the U.S., is forming Pioneer Anime Music, a new label that will release English versions of the soundtracks from many of Pioneer's most popular anime titles. Pioneer plans to price the disks at $14.98 (srp)...

The May 1993 issue of IC was particularly interesting, as it portrayed a comic business in bubble mode, a deal craze in comic companies, several articles that foreshadowed the impending comic crash, and anime and game sales that show similarities to the present.

Ryan Dancey, CEO of OrganizedPlay and former VP of Tabletop Roleplaying Games at Wizards of the Coast, has been hearing that OGL/d20 has 'failed' and offers this strong rejoinder.

Michael Tierney of the Comic Book Store in Little Rock and Collector's Edition in North Little Rock, Arkansas is giving Marvel the love today for its decision to double up the frequency on key titles for the summer.

Dallas Middaugh, who served for three years as the director of sales and marketing at Viz, LLC, has formed Redshift, a new company dedicated to providing sales representation for comic book publishers...