The 2002 Eisner Award Winners were announced at the recent San Diego Comic-Con, and the love was spread around. Four titles won multiple awards: 100 Bullets with three, and Eightball, Dork , and Akira with two each.

Comics based on retro toon and toy properties extended their lead in August comic orders from pop culture stores, with four out of the top 10 and six out of the top 20 comic titles fitting the retro mold.

Estimated quantities for initial orders on comics shipping in August 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.

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.

Robert Scott of Comickaze in San Diego, California had a strong reaction to last week's Marvel press conference on The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood #1 and related topics. He feels that Marvel's policies hurt its own sales.

Initial piece orders from comic stores on the top comic titles were weaker in June, with orders dropping on seventeen of the top 25 titles.

Raymond G. Iniquez, Jr., of Rays Mini Video & Comics, shares his thoughts on how FCBD went for his store.

Although the Spider-Man movie did not debut until May 3, its influence was already apparent in the Top 10 Cool products in several categories in April.

Brave New World has been serving the Santa Clarita valley in Southern California for 12 years.

Free Comic Book Day, the first-ever industry-wide promotion for comics, was held May 3, 2002. Mimi Cruz of Night Flight, Gail Burt of Metropolis Downey and Bob Brynildson of Source Comics and Games share their thoughts on how FCBD went for their respective stores.