Rich Johnston Archives

Most trademark folk know the strange position that DC Comics and Marvel have found themselves, protecting and defending their joint claim to the trademark

Monday sees the Final Order Cut-Off date for retailers ordering the first issue of Bill & Ted Save The Universe by Brian Joines and Bachan out on June

Funko came to MCM London Comic Con this weekend... and they brought exclusives! A Wonder Woman/Steve Trevor Double, a standard Wonder Woman, an Unmasked

Once upon a time, Andrew Wheeler wrote the No More Mutants column for Bleeding Cool. Then he stopped. Then he became the EIC of Comics Alliance. Then,

Syfy? You have a lot to answer for, Coming to comic stores on August 23rd from American Mythology is a new series by SA Check and Scottie Watson.

Nandor Fox Shaffer writes, I’ve never taken a creative writing class. I don’t have an English college degree. I’ve never written a comic book before —

After securing a last minute press pass, I am on my way to the Spring edition if MCM London Comic Con, running all this weekend at the ExCel Centre. Of

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool announced that Marvel Comics had let long-standing X-Men editor Daniel Ketchum go. Or, as Longshot artist Victor Calderon put

https://twitter.com/Meowtonian/status/867916589500317696 Following up a report of a man arrested at Phoenix Comicon for carrying real weapons, with a

Cullen Bunn and Iban Coello create the first issue of Venomverse, a series which along with Edge of Venomverse set up the big Venom event coming for 2017.

BBC International is not the broadcasting company we know and love, but a footwear firm. Previously, they had run up against Marvel Comics over BBC's

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran some Diamond-sourced statistics demonstrating how Free Comic Book Day's numbers were down in 2017 compared to 2016. In terms

https://twitter.com/mingchen37/status/856727465816842240   Hunter Pence is a Major League Baseball right fielder for the San Francisco Giants,

Recently we've seen and noted Jae Lee, creator of Hellshock, doing covers for Niobe, She Is Death for Stranger Comics and wondered what it was leading to.

Come a little bit closer baby Get it on, get it on Cause tonight is the night When two become one - The Spice Girls, written with Matt Rowe and Richard

Lark’s Killer by Bill Willingham and Mark Dos Santos is 1First Comics' big launch of 2017. The first brand new comic created by Willingham since Fables.

Bleeding Cool understands from multiple sources that long-standing X-Men editor Daniel Ketchum was let go by Marvel Comics on Tuesday. Popular with fans,

Elsa Charretier is the comic book artist who launched Unstoppable Wasp earlier this year with a very notable style. In July, however, she is off the book,

Phoenix Comicon is kicking off and while the world is concerned about a firearm arrest at the show, the people on the ground are just annoyed about the

This is the exclusive retailer cover by Miguel Mercado for our friends at Yesteryear Comics in San Diego. There's going a tonne of these to launch the new

For a while, Marvel Comics made nine of their titles available every month for retailers to commission exclusive variant covers. Then they shrunk it to

From Tim Hanley: DC's overall percentage of female creators ticked down again while Marvel's rose again, widening the gap between the two publishers. We

Diamond Comic Distributors have shared their survey results and statistics for Free Comic Book Day 2017 — and the word is it's down on 2016's performance.

Zenescope Entertainment has announced that TV writer/producer LaToya Morgan  (Turn: Washington’s Spies, Into the Badlands, Shameless) will be writing

CBS local news reports the arrest of a self-styled Joker by Miami police. The arrest happened on Tuesday in the evening, after police received reports of

Marvel has registered a trademark for the phrase “Spirits Of Vengeance” for comic books, printed periodicals in the field of comic book stories and

On the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars film's release, Paul B Rainey, the critically acclaimed creator of comics such as Memory Man, Thunder

Image Comics has been publishing their own solicitation and previews magazine, Image +, for over a year, including a serialised Walking Dead story showing

Marvel Comics do about seven a month. Image Comics is returning to them with Youngblood and a new system to support subsequent issues. But retailer

Four comic books from Image Comics have sold out and are going to a further printing on 21st June. Girl Scouts: Magic Socks #1, Redneck #2 and Plastic #2