Initial comic and graphic novel orders to Diamond from North American pop culture stores were up 7% (in dollars) over December 2000, capping off a strong year-over-year trend for the fourth quarter.

For the first time in recent memory, initial U.S. orders on a comic title by pop culture stores have topped $1 million retail.

By the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, Nick Barucci and the folks at Dynamic Forces will have raised more than $100,000 dollars for a variety of 9/11 charities including the Police and Fireman's Widow's and Orphans Fund...

Moore Creations, which specializes in creating collector-oriented toys, has just announced three new characters that are slated for the company's second series of figures based on the WB television series, Angel .

Strong month-over-month trends as well as the anecdotal evidence from retailers are confirmed by an 8% year-over-year improvement between November 2000 and November 2001 dollar orders to Diamond North America from pop culture stores.

A mixture of new and old products make up our Top 10 Cool lists for September, 2001, both in the sense of new and retro properties and creative material, and in the sense of products new to the list and those that have previously appeared.

Here are a few of the tidbits from presentations of major comic publishers at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit held in Las Vegas last week.

In spite of all the disruptions in TV schedules created by the heinous attack on the U.S., two of the most important television properties for pop culture retailers have done very well in their initial broadcasts.

For the first time this month, we've applied our analysis methodology to calculating the initial orders to Diamond U.S. for graphic novels ordered for shipment in October 2001.

Twentieth Century Fox announced today that the three-disk Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1 DVD will street on Jan. 15, 2002 with an SRP of $39.98.