Rich Johnston Archives

Politics. What is it good for? Absolutely everything. This is what you have been reading on Bleeding Cool this week. It is by will alone I set my mind in

After serious medical issues, Cerebus creator Dave Sim is no longer able to draw. But that isn't stopping him creating comic books. And from October we

 Steam Wars is a comic book franchise created by Fred Perry that seeks to retell the adventures of Star Wars in a more steampunk setting. So we have an

The important thing here is that I wrote my first graphic novel. It takes place on a completely motionless planet. Spinning? Nope. Orbiting something?

Bruce Zick writes, I killed myself on the Terminal Point comic books, all because of that damn Duo-Shade paper. You brush two different liquids on the

  Here's the cover to Fresh Off The Boat, the Boom Free Comic Book Day title by Gene Luen Yang and Jorge Corona based on the ABC TV show, ahead of

Andrew Huerta writes, I miss the 90s era of comics and I don’t mean the hologram or platinum covers or women with breasts so large and waists so thin you

Kevin Huckabee writes, Before recorded history, an alchemist combined with an unknown element from another universe and was transformed into an

Comic book artist, editor and publisher Steve Dillon, lived in Luton, Bedfordshire in the UK. His untimely death in New York last year from a burst

I saw the Lego Batman Movie earlier this week, courtesy of Warner Bros. It is remarkably different to The Lego Movie that featured the character. The Lego

After reading earlier comments from a Floridan comic book retailer regarding the portrayal of politics in modern superhero comic books, a Bleeding Cool

In November last year, a Washington mother objected to the inclusion of the graphic novel Mangaman by Barry Lyga and Colleen Doran in the Issaquah High

Joe Nozemack is the publisher of Oni Press, one of the more prestigious comic book publishers in the world. So anyone might be happy to receive an e-mail

Comicon.com is one of the ancientest of ancient comic reporting websites. Begun by Rick Veitch and Steve Conley back in 1998 (I think), it was intended to

You may have seen some of these. You may not. But here's a bunch of DC variant covers for the first week in March.... Death Of Hawkman #4 by Bill

We surmised that Marvel may have stealth-cancelled the current Rocket Raccoon series with its fifth series, in April. And it appears we may have been

On Marcg 4th, Bleeding Cool will be covering the C2C Comic-Con, the new name for the streaming comic convention being seen in comic shops the world over,

Remember that's James Cameron's Avatar, to distinguish it from Avatar: The Last Airbender, also published by Dark Horse. And, frankly, Avatar Press

Here's a sneak peek of Grass Kings, an original, limited series debuting in March from Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT, Dept. H) and Tyler Jenkins (Snow Blind,

This morning, Image Comics announced they were to offer a line of variant covers, the proceeds of which would be used to support Planned Parenthood. There

Last year's Attack On Titan Anthology, recruiting popular Western creators to work on Attack On Titan stories went over rather well, as did its Free Comic

So repeatedly-punched-in-the-face white supremacist Richard Spencer has been tweeting, I know, not exactly a surprise. But he managed to address the issue

Do you remember about a year ago when DC Comics published a lot of their titles in black plastic bags to promote Harley's Little Black Book and hid

Last month, President Trump signed an executive order barring federal funds from organizations that promote abortion around the world, including the

Preston Poulter writes A poker game and a punchline started it all -- bringing us to the Kickstarter to print issue #1 of my first comic book series. One

Out this Wednesday in comic book stores in time for Valentine's Day... but bookstores will only get it a week later. Consider that delayed gratification.

Appropriately, there were three comic book adaptation licenses sold for Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy. One, for English speaking American comics, as

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV5MSRcQsk0 From last night on British TV station, Channel 4 has Lego Batman Movie continuity ads running throughout its

Who wants to be a comic book editor? Here are a few openings right now... IDW Editor Our fast-paced Editorial Department in a San Diego-based

Neal Adams writes, If you have seen the latest figures on the common rates on “Fair Page Rates”  for our fellow professionals in the industry,  you are