Anime feature films took 11 of the top 20 spots in the list of Japanese box office totals for 2004 as well as representing more than 60% of the total.

4Kids Entertainment is renaming its Saturday morning block of animated programming for kids from Fox Box to 4Kids TV, effective this Saturday.

Avalon Hill has announced its 2005 product line-up, which includes a new printing of Richard ( Magic: The Gathering ) Garfield's RoboRally .

New Avengers #1 was the best-selling comic in December, topping 240,000 copies sold to comic shops by Diamond.

NECA unveiled its Prop Replicas from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie.

Comic artist Alex Saviuk saw the news of Will Eisner's death and shared his recollections.

Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 1, from Viz, was the top-selling graphic novel in bookstores last year.

Sales were soft for most of the top comic titles this month, with five out of the top ten and 16 out of the top 25 dropping in sales. But the top seven piece books were all higher than the current base $2.25 price.

Ilan Strasser of Fat Moose Comics and Games in Whippany, New Jersey responds to Sellner's last Talk Back comment; he's now been convinced to stock the Kandora titles:

For the past two years, WizKids has given away a major collectible to qualifying retailers attending its event at the GAMA Trade Show, and 2005 will be no exception.