Rich Johnston Archives

Yesterday morning I took the kids to Eel Pie Island. Not an easy thing to do, it's a private island on the Thames that the public can only visit for a

Dave Thompson and Kev Butters write: The best ideas happen when you’re with a mate down the pub, don’t they? Well… no, no they don’t. What happens is your

Christopher Irving writes: Madman’s 25th birthday has been a wonky one for me: Last May, I followed up my 3D trading card set of Mike Allred’s Madman (the

Ron Z's Valkyrie Saviors is a fictional blend of Norse and Greek mythology, with something different mixed in: the Zodiac.

Jim Henson's TV series Fraggle Rock was remarkable in that it created international co-productions localised to different territories — which means that

The BBC sets out its stall for Christmas ahead with a short film about family in the run-up to Christmas. Expect to hear this music, Clean Bandit and Zara

A lot of companies put a lot of stock in registering trademarks. Just look at the court case going on right now between San Diego Comic-Con and Salt Lake

Welcome to the 2017 report for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, looking at their work for the year.

Nuclear Winter is an OGN by cartoonist Cab about a young woman trying to survive her 20s in a Montreal plunged into an eternal winter with radioactive snow.

The gender ratio of writers and artists credited in the lineup of DC's New Age of Heroes may shock you... or not shock you at all, in the slightest.

Doomsday Clock #2 takes the brunt of advance reorders as retailers rush to up their numbers in the wake of issue #1's success.

The first part of Old Man Logan's Marvel Legacy kickoff story, The Scarlet Samurai, has sold out from Diamond and so is getting a second printing.

As more people turn digital, original comic book artwork is getting rarer. Prices on sketches at comic book shows or commissions are also going up in

We mentioned a couple of Grant Morrison Omnibuses coming from DC in 2018, and a reissue of Infinite Crisis Omnibus and Frank Miller's Ronin getting new

Every month, Marvel offers retailer the chance to commission exclusive covers for certain titles, as long as they order thousands of copies. It’s an

  Before DC Comics published Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, they also published Frank Miller's Ronin. The series was written and drawn by Frank

This week saw opening statements in the trademark court battle between San Diego Comic-Con and Salt Lake ComicCon over the ComicCon trademark. Callie

  The longest running comic book convention in Britain is Caption. It used to be in Oxford, then it was sent to Coventry, now it's in Brighton, and

The DC Comics Infinite Crisis Omnibus has been out of print for a while now. Which is why the cheapest you can buy it on Amazon Marketplace is for around

We mentioned that some copies of Monsters Unleashed #8 were printed with pages for Luke Cage #167 in the middle instead of the intended monstrousness. And

Royals, the comic that sees the Inhumans head to the stars, written by Al Ewing with artists including JonBoy Meyers, Alvaro Lopez, Thorny Silas and Kevin

In 1995, Outbreaks Of Violets – Random Acts Of Kindness was a portfolio of prints that told a story by Alan Moore.

Here's a preview of the first issue of Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Alpha #1 by Dan Slott, Mike Costa, and Ryan Stegman... out next week.

Courtesy of Marvel's Legacy Previews, here's a preview of the first issue of Marvel Two-In-One #1, with the Fate of the Four by Chip Zdarsky and Jim Cheung.

Courtesy of Marvel's Legacy Previews, because it seems quite a few folk didn't get them, here's a preview of the first issue of Phoenix Resurrection #1,

Check out these upcoming DC Comics variant covers for January 2018 shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them, but you won’t have seen most

It was news when they said they were going to do it. Continue collecting the Vertigo Doom Patrol series past the Grant Morrison and Richard Case run, and

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose... Publisher's Weekly in 2005, in an article by Calvin Reid, exposed that Kurt Hassler, the then Borders and

Last year, Lebanon banned the Wonder Woman movie because its star, Gal Gadot, had served in the Israeli forces under the country's national service.

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