Rich Johnston Archives

The 2018 GLAAD Media Award nominations have been revealed, and all three of the Marvel comics nominated for awards are ones that were recently cancelled.

Marvel Comics hasn't announced an exclusive creator deal in an age. Well, they have broken that duck with the announcement that Kelly Thompson is signing with Marvel.

Nancy Silberkleit, co-CEO of Archie Comics, is self-distributing her own Archie comic featuring Scarlet, a character with autism, introduced in the classic-style Archie series back in November in a story called Kindness Works.

Writer for Seinfeld, Futurama, My Family, Darin Henry, who has just sold a pitch to Netflix, is also publishing a line of humour comics called Sitcomics.

Frank Cho just this week suffered a basement flood and lost his childhood comic book collection, as well as lots of prints of his.

Bleeding Cool ran the nominations for the Diamond 2017 Gem Awards, a couple of weeks ago. Comic book retailers voted. And the winners have been announced.

Bill Sienkiewicz's Michonne cover sees The Walking Dead #176 top the advance reorders, as well as the now-officially co-written-by-Grant Morrison Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt and the new X-Men title starring Jean Grey, X-Men Red.

ComicsPRO, the trade association for comics speciality retailers, proudly announces the nominees for its annual Comic Industry Awards. The awards honour

Thanks to the smart eyes of Bleeding Cooler Mordechai Luchins, we see that Daredevil will be filming Season 3 of the Netflix show this coming Monday in

The Silencer is an upcoming New Age Of DC Heroes title by John Romita, Sandra Hope and Dan Abnett. It is to be published on January 31st. SILENCER #1 (W)

Bleeding Cool has been noting the closure of many comic book stores in recent months - as well as celebrating a few that have opened. But the overall

Manners maketh man. Remember those words on Friday 26th January if you are in the West End of London as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment transform

Amazing Spider-Man Vol 9 has hit the Amazon listings. For some reason, the Amazon US listing for Vol 9 is the same as for Vol 8. NEARLY ONE YEAR AGO

Earlier today, we ran the new Justice League Of America #23 cover by Doug Mahnke. Featuring the current "baddie" of the series, Queen of Fables, in close

The first title from Vault comics new shared-'80s-horror-continuity line, Cult Classic, has seen its Final Order Cut-Off date suddenly extended for unknown spooky reasons. This suddenly gives retailers an extra day's chance to increase — or decrease — their orders for Cult Classic: Return to Whisper #1.

The upcoming Doctor Strange mini-event, Doctor Strange: Damnation appears to have caused a little concern from certain retailers in certain parts of the

Co-creators of the BLACK comic book series, Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3 are publishing two new titles set in that universe as well as a quick name

In November, Bleeding Cool ran an article on issues that people had with the Justice League International Omnibus, published last year by DC Comics. Well, although there has been no official response, DC has issued a second printing that has fixed many of the issues.

Scout Comics and Entertainment's critically acclaimed crime/thriller comic book series Smoketown by writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Aquaman, Power of the Dark Crystal) and artist Scott Van Domelen is now in development with writer/director Vaughn Stein.

Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for February 2018 shipping titles, from Lee Bermejo, Bilquis Evely, Guillem March, Alvaro Martinez, Shane Davis, and Doug Mahnke.

Once upon a time, Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III created Promethea for Wildstorm Comics as part of Moore's America's Best Comics line. Then DC Comics

Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl announced Isola: Island of the Dead from Image Comics at Image Expo back in 2016, intended to see publication in the

Well, as we mentioned yesterday, this looks like the one. As teased by Marvel Comics in November, the Marriage of Kitty Pryde and Colossus.

On the 14th of February, Image Comics will reprint Ice Cream Man #1, the first printing of which has sold out. Image Comics is thrilled to announce that

We just ran a selection of new faces and promoted faces at Diamond Comic Distributors. But what about a no-longer-there face?

Diamond Comic Distributors has been making some staffing changes of late, which makes for a good time to run around some of the new faces — and slightly

Doom Patrol, the DC/Young Animal comic book by Gerard Way and Nick Derington is a but of a Schroedinger's comic, that both exists and does not exist. It

Justice League Of America #22 and #23 have contained the Queen Of Fables storyline, the first part of which came out last week. JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA

Aftershock Comics has signed the creators of the comic The Dregs, Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler to a new three-book deal. The first of those books, Her

It's a sobering thought to think that, once upon a time, all Marvel comics were considered all-ages. Even the horror books. But tastes change. In April,