• Cartoonist Ben Towle has announced the release of Snooker, a 64-page collection of his various minicomics. It's available for $10 at this site.

• I mentioned awhile back that Charles Burns was the editor for this year's edition of The Best American Comics series from HoughtonMifflin. It looks like Michael Kupperman is handling the cover chores on that book as well.

• In case you missed it: Archaia is partnering up with Henson Studios to make comics based on the Fraggle Rock, Labryinth and Mirrormask franchises.

• In case you missed it part II: Movie producer and comic book author Jeff Katz has started a new entertainment company, American Originals, that will publish comic books, among other things

• Broken Frontier reveals that Drawn and Quarterly will be publishing an English version of Brecht Evens' The Wrong Place early next year.

• Save your mana points now: Wizards of the Coast will release their first ever Magic: The Gathering graphic novel, Path of the Planeswalker, in October.

• Hey, Osamu Tezuka's Swallowing the Earth is now on sale at Akadot Retail, though it looks like you might pay for the privilege of being a first-buyer.

• Wondering what's up with the Graphic NYC book? The authors of the photo book of Big Apple cartoonists spill the beans on their publishing plans.