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.

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.

In this interview, Schanes talks about his career, the market trends in major pop culture product categories, Diamond's plans for product selections in the coming year, and what he sees as the next hot thing.

Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell has been a major success in the U.S. market. Shirow has continued the series with Ghost In the Shell 2 : Man-Machine Interface , which has recently been collected and published in a hardcover edition in Japan.

Alliance Game Distributors and Diamond Comic Distributors have announced that they will jointly have the exclusive right to distribute Game Workshop's new table-top war game based on the film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ri ngs trilogy.

Pioneer has tentatively announced July 3 as the street date for the video versions of the remastered film. Pioneer will be releasing four different Akira skus, including two ultra-cool DVD editions.

The European comic syndicate Strip Art Features (SAF) is working with Dark Horse in order to get SAF properties exposure in the U.S.

Pioneer Entertainment is spending over a million dollars to restore and digitally master Katsuhiro Otomo's anime masterpiece Akira.

Here's a list of what appear to be, at this moment, the best merchandising opportunities among 2001 movie releases.

Two new Dark Horse manga trade paperback series are showing surprising strength in formats closer to their Japanese counterparts than to their first American editions.