Rich Johnston Archives

This week, the President of the United States will be inaugurated. And with concerns about mounting national debt, her's a visual example of that from one

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

A recent study made by the Brigham Young University in Utah suggests that rather than superheroes make for poor role models for children. Pow! Boom!

Two videos, one of the cosplay, one of the show itself, courtesy of Ray Flook, attending the Fifth Annual Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomburg

We've just seen President-Elect Donald Trump attack the graphic novelist Congressman John Lewis on Twitter. But what if Trump's own words were themselves

Courtesy of Jemal Flores, Ray Flook and Jason Borelli, attending the Fifth Annual Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomburg Center in New York this

Earlier this week, civil rights activist Congressman John Lewis told NBC's Meet The Press "I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president" and

The first solicitations for April from DC Comics have started to be released by DC PR to Comics Alliance, CBR, Comic Book, Newsarama, Comicvine,  - and

This is Tim Sale's cover to Batman #14, out last week. Featuring Batman getting frisky with Catwoman. One hand... two hands... hang on... Let's zoom in.

It must be the heat. How else to explain the PR mess Phoenix Comicon got into, or the comic stores that were closing down but then weren't or some might b

Every comic book store is different. Their customers buying practices differ massively - I see that compiling the Bestseller List for Bleeding Cool each

Chris Thompson used to write for Bleeding Cool. He is now Titan Comics' new marketing guy. And now he's writing for Bleeding Cool... about a new Titan

Marc Jackson writes, This month sees the full launch, or blast-off, of the further adventures of GOONS OF THE GALAXY. Goonsis the comic of mine that first

Forty Best Comics and Best Graphic Novels lists for 2015. Everyone mentioned gets a tick. So who gets the most ticks? Which comics are the Best of the

IDW Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier puts the word out. https://twitter.com/sdunbier/status/818559911583809536 At IDW, Dunbier has specialised in

In the early nineties, Topps began publishing comic books, based on their lines of cards and licenses they picked up. They created a Kirbyverse based on

Michael Davis writes, This is a much-expanded version of Seduction of the not so innocent that ran in Comicmix. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its

Bleeding Cool has been covering the increase in overships from Marvel to comic stores in depth of late. Ostensibly, they encourage retailers to find the

The latest Marvel teaser for the Cap-centric event Secret Empire shows X-Men, Guardians, Avengers and Captains America and Marvel, and even an Inhuman -

Christopher Dennis, a professional lookalike for Christopher Reeve, and famous for posing as Superman on Hollywood Boulevard as Superman for 25 years, was

Image Comics is going to run Image 25th Anniversary variant covers through February. And here are eleven of the fifteen... Available in stores on

https://twitter.com/RyanHigginsRyan/status/818602863656058880 Karnak has been telling the story of the Inhuman who never underwent Terrigenesis of the

Coming to a comic store near you on the 15th of February... Two second prints, one for Clone Conspiracy #3 from Marvel Comics. And another for God Country

We were first to tell you that new New York comics publisher Black Box Comics had scored a coup with a new comic written and drawn by legendary Daredevil

Of late, Marvel Comics has been offering seven titles available for exclusive retailer variant covers, every month, more than any other publisher. Indeed,

Compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from the comics they have supplied to comic stores, conventions and subscription boxes in North America, across

Today, Orbital Comics in London launches a new exhibition in its gallery, Moonage Daydreams, for what would have been Bowie's seventieth birthday and a

For the last couple of years, comics (and now film/TV) writer Tony Lee has been touting a film in development with UK based Production company BoxFly

To be fair, even with Brexit and the slump in the pound, that's not far off how things usually go. The Nintendo Switch will be £279.99 alongside the US'

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and