Volumes 4-6 of the Astro Boy VHS series will hit the street on August 27, but Manga can't release the DVD versions until 2004 because of an agreement with the Tezuka estate.

Senator International, a Hollywood studio that specializes in moderately budgeted genre pictures, has optioned 30 Days Of Night , a three-issue horror comic series written by Steve Niles and published by IDW.

Tokyopop announced two new acquisitions at the recently concluded Anime Expo. The first was the Lupin III (pronounced 'Lupin the Third') manga by renowned creator Monkey Punch (Kazuhiko Kato).

Initial critical reaction to Sam Mendes' film of the Max Allan Collins graphic novel, The Road to Perdition , has been ecstatic.

Right smack dab in the middle of what has become a remarkable year for comic books, Wizardworld Chicago was short on major announcements and long on behind-the-scenes maneuvering and positioning.

Steve Jackson Games is reporting that the Hellboy Sourcebook And Roleplaying Game will be ready to display at the San Diego Comic-Con and GenCon.

Diamond has added three more small publishers to its book division: IDW, Guardians of Order, and Alternative Comics.

Initial piece orders from comic stores on the top comic titles in July were buoyed by the addition of two first issues that both sold well over 100,000 copies, Transformers Armada #1 and Battle of the Planets #1, at the number one and number three positions respectively.

There is a definite 'blast from the past' aspect to the top 10 list of comic books these days, and that trend is also seen in movies, DVDs, and toys.

Titan Books, the English publisher that secured the rights to publish the Transformers comics produced by Marvel in the 1980s, has just announced the release of Dark Designs , the first Titan collection featuring the original Marvel Generation 2 Transformers series.