The nearly two-decade-old Watchmen trade paperback, still smoking from from the effect of the trailer shown in conjunction with Dark Knight , the top movie of the year, was the top dollar book sold to comic stores in August, with an astounding 43,000+ copies sold.

Traditional American-published graphic novels continued to dominate graphic novel sales in bookstores.

This chart of the ICv2 Top 50 Manga Properties reflects sales in all channels in May, June, and the first half of July 2008.

Comic stores bought over 175,000 copies of the July issue of Secret Invasion, #4, only a few hundred copies down from their purchases of #3 in June.

Hermes Press is releasing By This Axe I Rule detailing the pictorial history of Conan the Barbarian.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will make its debut on DVD on October 14th

The Umbrella Academy returns with the debut of a new six-issue mini-series.

Dark Horse Manga has announced the acquisition of Daisuke Moriyama’s seinen manga series World Embryo .

Dark Horse with five outright awards and DC Comics with four led all publishers in the 2008 Eisners.

Rockne S. O’Bannon will be writing Boom! Studios' new Farscape comic book.