Rich Johnston Archives

By Devon Sanders Located in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC, another Small Press Expo (SPX) has come and gone and I am sad. I just

Joe Books have made a very nice cottage industry of adapting Disney movies as comics, in a variety of ways. And for the new animated movie, Moana, they

The experience of preparing the submission to the Octal catalog of comic pitch packets Written by Emir Pasanovic Writing for comics is not easy. I’ve been

As 2000AD publishes its two-thousandth issue next week, it will also be celebrating its 40th anniversary next year. With a special one-day event at the

This week's Civil War II and Guardians Of The Galaxy dovetailed their storylines together and set up the new status quo for the space-faring team.

by Aldo Alvarez, Ph.D. AKA Dale Lazarov 1. As you may have heard, Marc Andreyko put together an IDW/DC Comics fundraising anthology to honor the LGBT

Grant Morrison, now the nominal editor-in-chief of Heavy Metal Magazine, has two new strips in December's issue, number 284. The first, Mythopis, teams

Dominic Wells, ex-editor of Time Out magazine and long-standing British cultural journalist has been interviewing Alan Moore for decades. He took the

Scott Lobdell remains a man of many hats. A stand-up comedian-turned X-Men comics writer, he's written for film and television including the Tommy Lee

Eric Powell is a clever fellow. He's got a series coming out from Dark Horse Comics, Chimichanga. But he's also a self-publisher, putting out his comics

Action Lab have a number of launches for December, teen occult drama by Damon Clark and Alyzia Zherno, The Circle, the return of dinosaur hunter comic

Hadrian's Wall #1 by Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel and Rod Reis has sold out and gone to a second print, the latest of a number of Image Comics title to

Coming from Black Mask Studios in December - the return of Godkiller. Could the Local Comic Shop Day secret item have something to do with this? And

The final volume of Batman by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo took the no 1 hardcover graphic novel spot in the New York Times Bestseller List. But it was

Image Comics/Skybound is creating an exclusive Saga statue of the fan-favourite character Lying Cat for this year’s Local Comic Shop Day on November 19th.

Genre audio drama specialists Big Finish are best known for their Doctor Who and spinoff work, but they cover a variety of franchises and titles as well

 If you are wanting to attend London comic store Orbital Comics' live model drawing classes, you really have to plan ahead. Tonight's class, themed by

To celebrate the launch of The Walking Dead: the Complete Sixth Season on Bluray™ and DVD on 26th September, Bleeding Cool was invited to an ‘evening of

As you might suspect from the title, Clockwerx is a steampunk graphic novel released this week by Humanoids. Previously unavailable in an English language

It’s possible other sites had these up, but I hadn’t seen them. Tell me where I’m wrong in the comments. Hey, at least there’s no watermarks. Deadpool:

It was IDW who started it, with a Godzilla launch in 2011. The idea that retailers could commission their own exclusive cover of a regularly released

Marvel are relaunching Venom #1 with Mike Costa and Gerardo Sandoval in November. The symbiote you know and love has returned to New York City. No more

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

Last I checked, they still had copies at Gosh Comics in London, priced at £25 (around $30-35), a maximum of two per customer. Maybe not for long. A copy

It may be a one-shot. it may be longer. I don't know. But I'm told that Stephen Byrne, Irish comic artist and animator, known for his work on Dark Horse's

You can't dial 1-800 numbers from the UK. Can someone do me a favour? Love to know what they say... UPDATE: Thank you! https://youtu.be/XFaNADGUjXg

We heard a bit about Diamond Comic Distributors' current expansion of their Olive Branch central inventory and shipping distribution center in

This is the cover to Behold #1, the new comic publishing in December from Double Take, the comic book imprint of Take-Two Interactive. And this is the

Adult Colouring Books swamped the market over the last couple of years and recently comic books woke up to the fact that they had lots and lots of unused

by Patrick Gerard I remember being frantically excited when I first got news of the DC Comics Talent Workshop. I had been solicited for pitches from DC