Bill Griffith's cult comic hero Zippy the Pinhead is about to make a foray into animation in a series that will appear on the cable network Showtime.

A Louisiana State Court judge dismissed a lawsuit against Natural Born Killers studio Warner Brothers and film director Oliver Stone that had been brought by the family of a convenience store clerk who was paralyzed during a crime spree in 1995.

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.

Viz has announced that starting this month their Dragon Ball comics will no longer be edited for content and will carry a '13 and Up' label.

White Wolf has announced that Warren Ellis, the writer of The Authority, Planetary , and Transmetropolitan for DC's Vertigo line has signed on to write for White Wolf's pulp fiction role-playing game, Adventure , which will debut this summer.

Art Asylum will produce four or five action figures based on characters from the film and create a comic adaptation of the story in conjunction with Image, which will publish the graphic novel version.

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

While the toy industry, and in particular the action figure category had a terrible year in the mass market in 2000, the segment that targets the adult collector market continued to grow.

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.

Joe Sacco, whose Safe Area Gorazde has received excellent press recently drew four new pages of his special brand of comic reportage for the issue of Time Magazine that is out today -- March 5, 2001. The pages depict Sacco's return to the Middle East for the first time since the 1990s.