The Spider-Man DVD is due November 1, and retailers across the country are planning for how they can tie into what could be the biggest DVD release of all time.

After a short recess, Gaiman decided to keep his copyright interest in characters he created for Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic--Medieval Spawn, and Cagliostro--rather than seeking breach of contract damages from McFarlane.

Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane battled in court today, in a dispute that McFarlane's attorney called in his opening statement a case about 'two realities, Neil's reality and Todd's reality.'

The cable networks available to American viewers are the prime barometers of the cultural segmentation of our times. The latest specialized skein to be announced is the Blackbelt TV network, which will bring fans martial arts action 24 hours a day.

Plans for Free Comic Book Day 2003 are underway, and the first order of business is selecting a date. To do so, the committee charged with organizing the event is taking a comic retailer poll via the Diamond Website between two major comic-based movie releases.

With sales of graphic novels in mainstream bookstores on the rise, and book distributors vying to sign comic publishers, one of the first questions to arise is -- which graphic novel publisher is number one in bookstores?

Image Comics, including Top Cow and Todd McFarlane Productions, has signed with Diamond Book Distributors for distribution to the book, warehouse club, and mass merchant channels.

Slave Labor Graphics and Diamond Book Distribution have reached an agreement naming Diamond as the exclusive U.S. distributor of SLG's English language graphic novels to the bookstore, library, warehouse club, and mass merchandise markets.

Checker Book Publishing of Centerville, Ohio has announced that it will publish a graphic novel version of Clive Barker's short story collection, Tapping the Vein .

Estimated quantities for initial orders on comics shipping in September 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.