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Diamond has released the Top Ten and market share information for June. Here's the periodical and GN lists. Marvel and DC split the periodicals while DC, as usual, dominated the GN list.

Via PR, the Eisners this year will have two hosts -- returning in the Alec Baldwin role, we have Bill Morrison. And portraying...

San Diego Preview Night kicks off in exactly two weeks. A fortnight. And as of today we have exactly ONE PRESS RELEASE FROM A COMIC BOOK...

Announced via PR yesterday, Devil's Due, the long-running indie publisher is leaving Diamond as their distributor, for both books and periodicals, and...

Hope and Tintin, Anime Expo's diminished manga presence, and what is Marvel thinking of NEXT for their digital publishing?

While this week's news cycle is sure to churn fiercely, here's everything you need to get you up to speed from how to watch an argument on the internet to obligatory Lermontov references to the vagaries of the passage of time.

Ken Quattro uncovers the transcript of testimony in the 1939 lawsuit DC vs Victor Fox. The suit involved C suing the other publisher for a Superman knock-off which has been producer by the Eisner./Iger shop and then 22/year/old Eisner was called on to testify, an event covered in both the Andelman/Eisner biography and The Dreamer.

About half an hour ago a memo was sent to Zuda creators announcing that the original digital comics line was being shut down. A few of the better known Zuda titles, such as I Rule the Night, Bayou and HIgh Moon will be folded into the newly announced DC Digital program.

This morning's Cup O' Joe coffee klatsch between Kiel Phegley and Joe Quesada included a lengthy segment on the whole digital royalty flap from...

TV and comics veteran Jeph Loeb has been named to a new position within Marvel, according to a press release, below. As Executive Vice President, Head of Television, Loeb will work on bringing Marvel's characters to television and oversee both development and distribution of their series efforts, both animated and live-action. He will report to Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley.

A round up of other news from the week, and some follow up on other stuff....The big, big news is that the Hasting retail entertainment chain will be going into comics in a big way, bother graphic novels, which tyhey already carry, and now periodicals, including back issues. 147 Hastings stores -- mostly in the midwest, sun belt and Texas, will start up direct marketing accounts. The move follows the success of two test stores:

Lots of reaction and ripples from yesterday's announcement that DC was at long last joining the digital world with their DC Comics apps for...