CrossGen update: Publishers Weekly (subscription required) checks in with CrossGen's director of sales and marketing, Chris Oarr, about the troubled publisher's equally troubled trade program:

"'We're on the cusp of finalizing a new round of financing that will allow us to resume our graphic novel program.' The relaunch should come in three to five weeks, Oarr said. The first list will be tilted toward proven bestselling titles. 'You should begin seeing trade paperbacks available from CrossGen perhaps as early as May,' Oaar said."