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ICv2's popular monthly Top 300 Comics and Top 300 Graphic Novel lists have now been archived for your convenience.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

At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Fort Wayne, DC Comics announced that the first issue of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Strikes Again will go on sale on the fifth of December.

Manga Entertainment has confirmed to ICv2 that the versions of the two Evangelion movies that it will release in November will not be edited specially for the U.S. market. AD Vision had cut out some scenes from its Evangelion releases, but Manga maintains that they will be able to present the Japanese versions in their entirety and still keep a '13+' rating.

Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde , published by Fantagraphics Books, garnered a glowing review in the weekly New York Times Book Review (12/24/00).

Image Comics will launch a new line of smaller, lower-priced graphic novels for Saga , one of its best-selling graphic novel series.