Madison, Wisconsin-based Nostomania, Inc has announced the launch of Nostmania.com, a website that provides users with a free state of the art collectible management system.

Today only a surprisingly small percentage of pop culture retailers make much of an effort to sell apparel in their stores, but those that do often enjoy remarkable success. Here's the first in a series of examinations of the methods of retailers who have had great success in selling apparel items.

AnotherUniverse.com is up and running as one part of the Fandom inventory liquidation being run by CMI Holdings, parent of Comics and Comix and Thecomicstore.com. AU sent out an e-mail notice to its former customers on Friday, June 29th.

In a open letter excerpted on the Anime News Service website, C.B. Cebulski, the founder and prime mover behind Fanboy Entertainment, announced that Fanboy is scaling back its publishing operations.

D.P. 'Vern' Vernazzarro, one of the organizers of a drive to create a new organization that would further the interests of both comic and games retailers, told ICv2 that he is pleased with early reactions to his efforts.

Orson Welles' audacious first film, Citizen Kane , has often been voted the greatest film of all time, a deserved, though highly arguable distinction -- but there is no arguing the crucial importance of Welles' film on the history of American comic books.

North American comic shop orders increased in the aggregate again for July, with the total dollars up around 10% from June.

Martin A. 'Marty' Stever, a well known figure to retailers in the comics and games industries has been named Executive Vice President of WizKids LLC.

Top Cow, one of Image's most robust studios, has announced a major cutback in what was one of the industry's most aggressive exclusive variants program.

Orders by comic shops (Diamond U.S. customers) for the Top 300 Comics shipping in July.