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From #264-273: Online Comics Journalism: Does It Exist?
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by Michael Dean
From #272: At the Threshhold: Diamond Threatens to Cancel Comics That Don't Measure Up
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by Michael Dean
From #271: Comics and Corporations, Part One
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by Michael Dean
From #270: How Michael Jackson Almost Bought Marvel and Other Strange Tales from the Stan Lee/Peter Paul Partnership
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by Michael Dean
From #270: Top Shelf Says Goodbye to Chunky Rice
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by Michael Dean
From #270: Political Cartoonists Face An Uncertain Future at AAEC
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by R.C. Harvey
From #269: Paul: Lee Settlement Defrauds Stan Lee Media Shareholders
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by Michael Dean
From #269: Scanlation Nation: Amateur Manga Translators Tell Their Stories
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by Dirk Deppey
From #269: Sakura-Con 2005: The Young, The Wired and the Wireless
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by Kristy L. Valenti
Web extra: U.S. Customs Releases Books Seized from Top Shelf Shipment
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by Michael Dean
From #264: Where Do New CBLDF Board Members Paul Levitz and Steve Geppi Stand on the First Amendment?
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by Michael Dean
From #263: An Extraordinarily Marketable Man: The Ongoing Struggle for Ownership of Superman and Superboy
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by Michael Dean
From #263: Shrinking Alternatives: Is It Just Jeff Mason's Company or Is the Alternative Comic Book Format In Trouble?
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by Michael Dean
From #262: Collective Inaction: The Comics Community Tries and Tries Again to Get It Together
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by Michael Dean
From #262: The Big Book of Wild Women: Dead or Alive?
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by Michael Dean
From #261: At Last the Industry Gets the Trade Association It Always Wanted -- But Is It the Real Thing?
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by Michael Dean
From #261: Rojek vs. the FBI: Comics Retailer Indicted On Federal Fraud Charges
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by Michael Dean
From #260: Marvel Makes Dave Cockrum an Offer He Can't Refuse
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by Michael Dean
From #260: Journal Datebook
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by Staff
From #259: 2004 - A Good Year to Get Out of the Manga Business?
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by Michael Dean
From #258: What A.C.T.O.R. Does For the Comics Industry -- And What It Isn't Doing
by Michael Dean
From #257: CrossGen at a Crossroads
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by Michael Dean
From #256: Bad Girls and Bad Blood: The Dark Side of Indy Comics
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by Michael Dean
From #255: American Blender: A Reporter Sifts Through the Many Realities of Hanging Out with Harvey Pekar the Movie Star
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by Jack Baney
From #255: Stan vs. 'Striperella'
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by Michael Dean
From #254: Comics Community Comes to Fantagraphics' Rescue
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by Michael Dean
From #254: California Supreme Court Rules Jonah Hex Comic Entitled to First Amendment Protection
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by Michael Dean
From #253: The Vampirella Wars, The Untold Story of James Warren's Custody Battle with Harris Comics (Click here for an excerpt.)
by Michael Dean
Breaking News: Two SPX Steering Committee Members Resign Over Issues Surrounding Pending Move to Baltimore Comic-Con
By Michael Dean
Breaking News: Doubleday Graphic Novels, Alive or Dead?
By Michael Dean
From #250: Books Published by Seven Hills Clients Show Up on eBay
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by Michael Dean
From #250: The Gaiman vs. McFarlane Trial
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From #246: Book Trade Turmoil
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by Michael Dean
From #245: State of the Comics Industry 2002: Recovery or Decline?
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by Michael Dean
From #243: Spanish Comics Convention Scandalized by Live Sex Performance
by Eric Reynolds
From #242: Reeling from Anthrax Attack and Distribution Troubles, Cracked Awaits Salvation
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by Michael Dean
From #242: Will DC Buy Diamond?
by Michael Dean
From #241: McFarlane Vs. Marvels and Miracles
Neil Gaiman Sues Todd McFarlane Over Rights to Miricleman, Angela, Cogliostro, Medieval Spawn (Click here for an excerpt)
by Michael Dean
From #241: Writer Cool with Unauthorized Use of Script in Cerebus
by Michael Dean
Supreme Court Rejects DeCarlo Appeal
By Michael Dean
From #239: Marv Wolfman Talks About His Day in Court
By Michael Dean
From #236: Another Date for Ted Rall and Danny Hellman
By Michael Dean
From #235: Federal Investigation of Stan Lee Media Leads to Indictments of Peter Paul, Three Others
By Michael Dean
From #234: New York Press Puts Kaz Out to Pasture, Alternative Weeklies Overcome by New Blood Lust (Click for excerpts)
By Michael Dean
From #234: In the Company of Sim
By Michael Dean and Staff
From #234: The Case of the Disappearing Gorilla:
The Banana Trust Explains How Not to Start a Comics Line (Click for excerpts)
By Michael Dean
From #234: Crumb Art Stolen
By Matt Silvie
From #234: Marvel Drops Comics Code, Changes Book Distributor
By Michael Dean
From #233: Diverse Eisner Nominations Announced
By Matt Silvie
From #233: Who Killed Stan Lee Media? Peter Paul Tells His Side of the Story
By Michael Dean
From #232: The Stan Lee Story Reaches Chapter 11
By Michael Dean
From #232: Harveys 2001
By Gil Jordan
Posted December 11th, 2000: DC Comics pioneer Jack Liebowitz dies at 100
By Mike Catron
Posted November 16th, 2000: Wolfman loses Blade lawsuit against Marvel
By Michael Dean
Posted November 14th, 2000: Update - From Hell Cleared Down Under
By Michael Dean
Posted October 26th, 2000: Australian Customs Blocks Import of From Hell
By Michael Dean
Posted October 25th, 2000: The IMAGE Story: a four-part series
By Michael Dean
Posted October 19th, 2000: Dungeons and Dragon*Con
By Michael Dean
Posted October 19th, 2000: Sad Sack vs. Geppi
By Michael Dean
Posted September 8th, 2000: A Tale of Two Posters
By Michael Dean
Posted August 25th, 2000: Carl Barks Dies at 99
By Michael Dean
Posted March 8th, 2000: Girl Trouble at Archie
By Michael Dean
Posted February 13th, 2000: Schulz Goes Out With His Strip
By Michael Dean
Posted February 11th, 2000: Rall vs. Hellman, Kitchen vs. Todrin Updates
By Michael Dean
Posted January 7th, 2000: Don Martin Dies
By Eric Evans
Posted December 15th, 1999: Schulz Cancels Peanuts
By Michael Dean
Posted October 22nd, 1999: Cartoonists at War - Danny Hellman's joke on Ted Rall turns out to be anything but a cheap laugh
By Michael Dean
Posted October 22nd, 1999: CMAA Tries to Make Friends with the Direct Market
By Michael Dean
Posted October 22nd, 1999: Ignatz Under Fire - Cho Defends Self-Nomination
By Craig McKenney
Posted October 6th, 1999: Ripples on the Golden Age Pond
By Darren Hick
Posted October 6th, 1999: Valentino Plans New Image
By Michael Dean
Posted June 28th, 1999: Kitchen Sunk
By Michael Dean
Posted June 28th, 1999: Saul Steinberg Dies
By Tom Spurgeon