Dan Hirsch, President of Alliance Game Distributors, LLC announced Friday, March 30 that Alliance is acquiring the businesses of three California distributors of pop culture products -- Berkeley Top Line Distributors (BTL), its sister company Sports Memories Inc.(SMI), and Barchetta Distribution.

Complete Alliance press release announcing Alliance's acquisition of Berkeley Top Line, Sports Memories, Inc., and Barchetta Distribution.

Diamond Comic Distributors is joining forces with its sister company-- Alliance Game Distributors--to host three regional 'Retailer Summits' in the fall of this year.

Company profile on Dark Horse Comics, Inc.

Word filtering out from Showest in Las Vegas where studios show their wares to theater owners and bookers is that the Dreamworks animated comedy Shrek looks like a hit.

Although its ability to execute its strategy is yet to be proven, Marvel is in fact pursuing a two-pronged strategy that includes substantially increasing its output of trade paperbacks and graphic novels as well as trying to imrove sales of its periodical comics.

Here's the final list of exhibitors for the 2001 GAMA Trade Show, coming soon.

Marvel President Bill Jemas' defense of his no overprint policy has fed the continuing discussion over the future of the comics business.

Pop culture content sites are in the news as we write this, so we're taking the opportunity to do an update on the category.

Our article last week on comic orders for March ('Top Comics Below 100,000') provoked a lot of reactions -- in fact, the most reactions of any article we've published since we launched a month ago.