Will Alan Moore's Watchmen ever make it to the big screen? There is no doubt that a large portion of comic fandom sincerely hopes that it will -- check out the accompanying faux movie poster created by a zealous Watchmen acolyte.

Ilan Strasser of Fat Moose Comics in Whippany, New Jersey saw recent comments on competition between pop culture stores and chain retailers and offers his observations.

Richard Bruning, who was Editor-In-Chief and Art Director for Capital Comics before joining DC Comics, has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Creative Director, DC Comics & Mad Magazine .

Sales rankings obtained by ICv2 for one recent week's sales in U.S. bookstores as compiled by a major industry reporting service showed eighteen of the top twenty graphic novel slots and all of the top ten held by manga titles.

ICv2's popular monthly Top 300 Comics and Top 300 Graphic Novel lists have now been archived for your convenience.

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?

Checker Books just announced a three-book deal with Rob Liefeld to publish the Alan Moore-scripted runs on Supreme and Youngblood . The first book to be published under the agreement will be Supreme: The Story of the Year , which is due in November and will retail for $26.95.

Marvel's recent announcement of exclusive deals with Joseph Michael Stracynski (JMS) and Kevin Smith could be seen as a response to DC Comics forging similarly exclusive deals with Brian Azzarello, Warren Ellis, and Mike Carey.

ADV Films is set to release the 8-disk compilation of the Neon Genesis Evangelion television series on April 9.

Today's Variety reports that Fox is going full steam ahead with a film adaptation of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen .