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We're battling some kind of virus that we got from eating some ill-advised food. It's a real tussle that goes back and forth, and going to sleep before 4 am would probably help, as...

Patrick Jodoin of Lebonfon, a Canadian printer that has been picking up some work from the Quebecor mess, sent out a brief statement yesterday: We have been receiving many questions with regards to recent problems...

Diamond has released the figures for its top selling individual comics periodicals of '07. Marvel took 23 out of the top 25, with BUFFY #1 and JLA #7 to break up the string. It...

Annnnd here's the top selling graphic novel chart. Manga has its own chart which we'll hopefully be posting later on. Sorry this looks funny. We're trying to fix. 2007 TOP 100 GRAPHIC NOVELS QtyRank RetailRank Description Price Ven 1 1 CIVIL...

Diamond has released its year -end figures for 2007, and as soon as we figure out the HTML, we'll be putting up more of them. In the meantime here's how to publishers shook out...

As reported yesterday, Quebecor World, printer of most North American comics periodicals, has filed for bankruptcy in both US and Canadian Courts. Jim Milliot at PW writes: According to the company, as part of the...

We can't tell if this position paper from Comic Book Bin is a parody of the infamous ComicsPRO position paper (which we'll be getting to in a a bit) but maybe we're just punchy...

We don't have what we'd call a commanding grasp on the Quebecor story, but after talking to a few people yesterday the pieces are beginning to come together. The short version is that...

Speaking of that WGA strike, Variety blogger Tom McLean explains very clearly why Comic-Con is strike-proof. The comment thread to the post points out something interesting that we had kind of noted in...

UPDATE: Well, now it's looking like the bail-out never came: Quebecor World Inc (IQW.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it failed to obtain $125 million of new financing required under waivers from its banking...

ICv2 reports on the latest in book distribution consolidation, which affects a few indy comics as well: National Book Distribution has sold its small press distribution division, Biblio Distribution, to AtlasBooks, the distribution arm...

• ANN reports that Newtype USA, the glossy, oversized manga-culture magazine is to cease publication -- but ADV will replace it. Representatives of A.D. Vision (ADV) have contacted retail partners to inform them that the...