Reed Combines NYCC, NYAF at Javits Center
Although they are apparently remaining separate entities, New York Comic Con and the New York Anime Festival will take place in the same place at the same time in 2010. Both events are owned and run by Reed Exhibitions, and formerly NYCC had taken place during the spring, while NYAF has traditionally been a fall event. Now both events will take place at New York City's Javits Convention Center on October 8-10. The entrance fee will cover both events and they will share a common show floor, but they will maintain separate guest-lists and programming areas.

Stitches Online Video
Scenes from David Small's critically acclaimed memoir comic Stitches are now available online in free video shorts. Stitches, which came out from W.W. Norton on September 8, is the dark story of Small's emotionally and medically abusive family.

SPX Programming Listing
The annual Small Press Expo or SPX, which will be held Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27, at The North Bethesda Marriott Convention Center in Bethesda, Maryland, has announced its programming slate. Programs will feature such artists as Gahan Wilson, Josh Neufeld, Carol Tyler, Paul Karasik, Peter Kuper, John Porcellino and many others. For more information check the SPX website.

A Day for the Bookstores
This fall, we invite you to join Publishers Weekly in celebrating the first annual National Bookstore Day, a day devoted to celebrating bookselling and the vibrant culture of bookstores. This year's day will take place on Saturday, November 7, and to make it a success we need your help and participation. We recognize that most stores already do wonderful promotions on their own throughout the year, but we want to enhance those efforts by banding together and thereby building visibility nationwide on a single day. We have created a logo and formatted it onto bookmarks, window signs and posters that you can download or insert into your customer print and e-newsletters. These are customizable PDFs that you can use to promote special discounts, contests and offers available to your customers only on November 7. you do plan to participate, please e-mail us at PWEvents@reedbusiness.com so we can add your bookstore's name and URL (please provide us with the link) to our Web site.

Seven Seas Manga For Kindle
Three of Seven Seas Manga's top-selling titles — Agent Luna, Arkham Woods and Aoi House - are now available for the Amazon.com Kindle and the iPhone Kindle ebook reader. The ebook of each 200 page volume will cost only $3.50, making these titles the lowest priced digital manga available from any publisher for the Kindle. If the program is successful, more titles may follow.

Archie, Veronica Wed; Old Characters Return,
Archie and Veronica are getting married and that storyline will wrap up in Archie #601 coming out this Wednesday, with the marriage of the two popular teen characters, set in a possible future where they have become engaged.Meanwhile, In Archie and Friends #137-138, such classic Archie Comics characters as Superduck and Cosmo the Merry Martian, unseen in comics for decades, will return for a special storyline entitled “Cosmic Cosmosis.” In this two-issue story written and illustrated by Fernando Ruiz, Archie and his friends will encounter the world of funny animal comics and vice versa through an inter-dimensional portal in their local comic book store.

Full House Comes To Netcomics
Popular Korean Manwha title Full House by Soonyeon Won, creator of Let Dai and Devil's Trill, was originally published in English by CPM Manga, but was discontinued when the publisher filed for bankruptcy. Now manga and manwha publisher Netcomics has announced that they will be publishing the series, and will continue past the point where the CPM editions left off. The first chapters will be available in digital format on Netcomics.com this month. Full House is the story of a love/hate relationship between a screenwriter and the brash young actor who purchased her house out from under her nose, and was made into a hit live action television series in Korea.

Picture Box; Top Shelf Offer Book Sales
Prestigious independent comics publishers Picture Box and Top Shelf are both offering heavily reduced prices in their official online stores. For one week only, Picture Box is offering 35% off many items, as well as a number of themed reduced-price “value packs” which are specially selected groups of comics and art chosen for sharing a specific theme like rock music or 80's grotesque art. Meanwhile, from now until September 25, Top Shelf Comix is offering over 55 graphic novels for the low price of $3 each, and many other titles at reduced prices in celebration of the release of Surrogates, the Bruce Willis science fiction movie based upon the Top Shelf comic of the same name. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls and Owly are all among the titles available at heavily reduced prices.

This Week @ Good Comics for Kids
School Library Journal’s comics blog, Good Comics for Kids, takes a look at Gary the Pirate, Sarasah vol. 1, Archie Comics and all ages manga and manhwa