- Warner Bros. announced that Tales from the Black Freighter, the comic-within-a-comic from Watchmen, would be a spinoff DVD released concurrently with the theatrical movie. Given all the legal wrangling over the main attraction, though, who knows when it’ll come out?
- We hung out with Michael Chabon and Jeffrey Ford, talking about how real literature doesn’t make genre distinctions.
- We helped Michael Gross and the Metropolitan Museum of Art bury the hatchet, at least as far as Gross’s cover art problems were concerned. It was all a big misunderstanding!
- John McCain may have gotten the Republican presidential nomination, but Ron Paul sold more books.
- Doubleday promoted Chuck Palahniuk‘s latest novel, Snuff, with fake porn trailers.