Rich Johnston Archives

Bleeding Cool has been reporting on DC Comics' new strategy to make, as standard, the artist the key promotable and artistic lead on their ongoing monthly

Ninja-K, the Ninjak revival from Valiant Entertainment by Christos Gage and Tomas Fiorello, has sold out and gone to second printing. Expect to find it in

From a variety of webcartoonists and artists, for the festive season comes an X-Mas Advent Calendar, in the manner of the X-Men: Days of Future Past cover.

Back when Spawn #3 was published by the nascent Image Comics, Todd McFarlane introduced Cyan, the daughter of Terry Fitzgerald and Spawn's ex-wife Wanda

Diamond Book Distributors has been named the exclusive worldwide distributor in the direct and bookstore market for Albatross Funnybooks.

Last year, BBC's Children Books began publishing a series of crossover books between the Mister Men and Doctor Who. Now, just in time for Christmas

On Christmas Day, the BBC will broadcast the first episode of a new adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel Anansi Boys, starring Lenny Henry, Jacob Anderson,

The much-loved-by-Bleeding-Cool Mark Stafford has a new project commissioned by the British Council, Kangkangee Blues which he calls a "sad little love

Marvel's new EIC admits to writing under an Asian pseudonym, talking affordable healthcare for comic creators, and more geeky news from the past week!

There I was, unboxing the latest Loot Crate, the Unite 2.0 November box, the November Firefly crate and a mystery package that turned out to be Doctor

It was another clean sweep — the kind that only DC Comics titles get of late. Every store reported Batman Annual #2 was their best-seller.

There now follows a spoiler for Justice League, recently released by Warner Bros. If you are intending to see the film and care about this sort of thing,

On her way to the US on Friday, Canadian writer Amal El-Mohtar was detained by border security, even after having been detained and cleared back in May.

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